Liona, a long time secondary schoolteacher in Grey Highlands, was born in 1937 in Walkerton and raised in Vandeleur. She grew up poor -her mother had to make her clothes and shoes by hand. When World War Two broke out, Liona and the other children picked milkweeds to be made into life vests for the war effort. She remembers getting the strap at school because she copied something incorrectly off of the blackboard, and was once sent home for wearing overalls. Liona talks about the changes that she's seen in her life, and shares her memories of long gone local customs, such as ladies all wearing their wedding dresses to wedding showers. In her words, "I was tough, but I was fair."