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Sailors Falls. While the exact location of his wine saloon or hotel has not been
estabUshed, a granddaughter later suggested that it might have lain at the end of what
eventually became Quarry Road:
By word of mouth from Robert Righetti, (son of Giuseppe) in 1933, I
leamed that I may find the site of the first house of Serafino and Lucy.
I subsequently visited an old house on the Melboume side of
Daylesford at Sailors' Springs, Muskvale, and was directed to the place
where the house had been. All that remained on the site were signs
where the house had been and remains of a garden including an English
laurel shmb.^'
Besides the garden created by Lucy the couple operated a small farm which, combined
with the income from their hotel, made them self-sufficient. The family dined on many
traditional Ticinese foods including pasta from Lucinis' macaroni factory and home­
made salami. Serafino's salami recipe, which was kept hidden in his dairy, eventually
passed on to a grandson who made it avaUable to a local butcher in Daylesford."*" As
late as the 1990s, it was possible to buy salami prepared from this original recipe, food
again Imking people of different time periods and ethnic backgrounds.'*^
Serafino's Italian-speaking heritage was also evident in the people he invited to
his home, his brother Giuseppe and other members of the Swiss-Italian community
often calling to play cards and speak in their ovm language. Amusing the children with
their foreign chatter (and reinforcing their sense of belonging to a European ethnic
group), Giuseppe's son Frank later commented how his father's 'continental friends. . .
would be jabbering in their own language'."*^ The second-generation Righettis
apparently understood little of the Italian language, having attended the local schools
and been raised by English-speaking mothers: unlike the Tomasetti and Lafranchi
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