Why growing up in the pink store?

I was born in 1950 in a house with a great grandmother, a grandmother, a mother, father and an older brother in the age of no television,  just storytelling. As life progressed, I learned by listening to old timers tell their life stories before I was born. For this, I am blessed. As life went on, under the direction of family, I learned to explore the downtown to understand how life was in our small town of Fort Frances. One important lesson was to honour and respect all the people I came across.  I started to write a book about my Grandmother, Betty Anderson, known to me as Granny. She is the creator of the pink store. Her life with her 2 children was very tough and violent with surviving a nasty divorce. And this was in the 1930s when divorce was unheard of. Her rise to becoming a respected business woman is also a great tale to tell. As I went deeper into my research, I realized recounting her life was a huge job so why not blog about all of the stories I want to tell. Hope you enjoy?