Twilight Evening - Presenting a true rags-to-riches story
Event description
Come along and enjoy this wonderful twilight event, the first English-Speaking Union (Qld Branch) event for 2025, the story of the Queensland Sugar King. A true rags-to-riches story.
Catherine Smith will share the power of the immigrant’s story. Catherine will take us back to 1912, when Maltese immigrants Paul and Pauline Zammit landed in Australia, welcomed only by racial and political hostilities. Illiterate and impoverished, they battled insurmountable hardship to raise their ten children, create a legacy that would outlive them, and forge a place they could call home.
Catherine Smith's family memoir shares an extraordinary insight into European immigration before the outbreak of World War One and the remarkable story behind her grandfather's ascent to become Queensland's “Sugar King”.
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