Esther Hobart Morris Women's Suffrage mini play 

A League of Her Own acting troupe, sponsored by the Cheyenne League of Women Voters, will perform an updated version of its new readers theater production called “An Afternoon with Esther” for the Cheyenne Rotary Club on April 13. Highlighting the life of Wyoming suffragist Esther Hobart Morris, the original play was featured last summer at a dedication of a plaque marking her Cheyenne home. That ceremony dedicated the first Wyoming marker on the National Votes for Women Trail (NVWT). Morris came to South Pass City, a gold mining camp in Wyoming Territory in 1869, and was the first woman justice of the peace in Wyoming and the nation. Throughout her life she supported the antislavery movement, suffrage and equal rights for women. Organized in 2019 to mark the 150th anniversary of Wyoming granting women the right to vote, A League of Her Own has performed its play “Wonderful Wyoming Women Voters” numerous times. Nominated by the Laramie County Historical Society, the play won first place in the fine arts category of the Wyoming State Historical Society’s 2020 annual awards program. For the 2021 Morris house event, the troupe wrote a new script focusing on Esther Hobart Morris. All the characters in the play knew Esther, played by Denise Burke: Julia Bright, of South Pass City, played by Rosalind Schliske; Therese Jenkins, of Cheyenne, played by Debra Lee, and Amalia Post, of Cheyenne, played by Mary Guthrie. The narrator, played by Keren Meister Emerich, guides the characters in reminiscing about Esther.