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Robin Sessions Cooley: Change Begins Outside Your Comfort Zone
Robin Sessions Cooley is the Director of the Wyoming Department of Workforce Services. She grew up in Park County and is from Powell, Wyoming. In this episode, Robin talks about the impact that working in local government has had on her life, her advice for young...
Mary Guthrie: Women Who Changed The Course Of History In Wyoming
Mary Guthrie was born and raised in Newcastle, Wyoming. She attended the University of Wyoming where she received a B.A. in English. At the age of 36, she earned her Juris Doctorate and later served as a deputy Wyoming Attorney General. Recently, she wrote the play...
Renee Laegried: The Right To Vote Was Their Most Radical Demand!
Renee Laegried is a historian who specializes in women's history and the history of the American West. She was born in Washington state and moved to Wyoming in 2012. In this episode, Renee talks about the reasons Wyoming was the first state to give women the right to...
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Celebrating Women’s Voting in Wyoming for 150 Years
On December 10, 2019, Wyoming commemorates the sesquicentennial anniversary of Wyoming Territory passing “An Act to Grant to the Women of Wyoming Territory the right of suffrage, and to Hold Office,” commonly known as the Women’s Suffrage Act. I am proud that Wyoming...
Wyoming Humanities Partners with Wyoming Women’s Foundation for Statewide Project
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: November 6, 2019 Contact: Emy diGrappa Emy@ThinkWY.org | 307-699-2680 FIRST, BUT LAST? A PODCAST PRODUCED AND PUBLISHED BY WYOMING HUMANITIES - A STATEWIDE PROJECT TO COMMEMORATE THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF WYOMING GRANTING WOMEN SUFFRAGE...
Wyoming’s Future Requires Creative Ideas
October was National Arts and Humanities Month, and along with November tends to be the busiest time for cultural programming in Wyoming. Between attending events and helping my fellow Wyomingites find out about them, the significance and impact of the creative and...
Wyoming Community Foundation Awards Grant to Wyoming Humanities
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: October 3, 2019 Contact: Emy diGrappa Emy@ThinkWY.org | 307.699.2680 Since the beginning of time (human time), storytelling has served a critical role as the sole means of communicating experiences and emotions in narrative form. Ancient...
What We Owe the Dead
by Keelyn Byram Cemeteries are often overlooked as something the public needs to be concerned with. However, cemeteries serve an important communal purpose and when they fall into disrepair action needs to be taken. But what can be done? There are simple things...
Three PEN/Hemingway Award Honorees To Read At Sheridan College
Join Ucross Writers Elissa Schappell, Ian Bassingthwaighte, and Ling Ma on Thursday, September 19 at 7 pm Ucross, Wyoming — September 6, 2019 — Ucross is pleased to announce that three award-winning authors, Elissa Schappell, Ian Bassingthwaighte, and Ling Ma will...
