hi, just checking this board because my great grandfather came from italy and told a story about being a gardener for the vecchi brothers... and they loaned him the money to come to america... this story has come to me a little sketchy, so i am not sure on any of those details. he would have come from the calabria area, and you are the first post to mention that area. do you have any family stories of the brothers owning a hotel or a park or something of that nature where they would need a gardener? i am going with the assumption they were not just a wealthy family, as that was a poor area. this would have been about 1900 and he was living in the Marzi/Rogliano area for most of his early life