0505 Teopista

Fiercely loyal to the people she loved and terrifying to those who disappointed her, Teopista Marchi Rugani was a force to be reckoned with. Raised in the hills of Tuscany in the late 1880s, Pista gave birth to three children by three different men -- two were brothers and the third was her husband. Juggling all these men, she emigrated to Michigan's Upper Peninsula in the copper mining era and found life to be just as dramatic in America as it had been in Italy.