Colleen Maguire has been a costumed interpreter for six summers at the Huron County Historic Gaol. For the last four years she has portrayed Margaret Hill Dickson, the beloved Gaol Governess from 1876 to 1895. Colleen has extensively researched every aspect of Mrs. Dickson’s life, her family and her socially advanced work at the Gaol to provide an intimate and heart warming portrayal of this outstanding woman.

Colleen describes how her interactive theatre piece, Mrs. Dickson, presents Unharvested Histories: 

Some people toil away quietly their whole lives, They pass from this life of burdens and care and when those who knew them are also gone their contribution fades from memory. Those who pass their headstone see only a set of letters and some dates. But then someone stumbles across their name, there is an awakening and they live and breath again.