Copper Range Chronicle

About the Book

Over a hundred years ago, Bernardo Andreini immigrated to America, recruited by a copper mining company in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

Bernardo’s first wife died when their second child was only five days old. In a few months, Filede Consani traveled from Italy to marry him. They were virtual strangers. Set in the beautiful Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan is the story of my grandparents, Bernardo and Filede, and their descendents.

A gigantic mining industry was in full swing, but it was not the region’s first. Thousands of years before, for 1200 continuous years, unremembered others had worked the mines.

About the Author

Anita Andreini Ahearn is a native of Baltic. Although she spent much of her life in the Flint, Michigan, area, she loves the Copper Country and returns often to visit relatives, look for agates on the Lake Superior beaches, and to pick thimbleberries. During the millennium year 2000 she decided to write the story of the Italian side of her family. She started research at the Copper Range Historical Society of South Range. A year later she received a letter from a cousin she never knew existed, and the family story took its present form.