Lethbridge, Alberta Q. "So class, do you have any questions for the pioneers?" A. "What was your son like as a kid?"

"On those long winter nights, we would get out the guitar, and sing from an old hymnbook, of which many of the songs we'd just make up the tune."

"Being with family members was always an emotional high for pioneers, even us modern day ones."

"We had to learn to work with tools that we knew nothing about"

"We insulated our homes with moss and we discovered that mice do not like moss so we had no 'mice in our hice'."

"Our stack of firewood was about as big as the stage, 5 feet high and it had to all be cut into one-foot lengths."

"Deanna and Alana had to peel all the logs for our buildings and by the end of the summer, there weren't many guys who could beat them in an arm wrestle."

"The most dreaded part of the week for a pioneer woman must have been WASH DAY. My mom and dad both came from families of 13 kids."-Deanna

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