Two History Programs to be Held at Museum at the Bighorns

Carrie Ida Edinger, Director of Museum at the Bighorns, recently announced that there will be two community programs offered at the museum that are part of the Voices and Votes exhibits.

The first program, Fifty-One Years of Freedom: Wyoming’s Suffrage Story, 1869 – 1920, will be held on Saturday, May 16, from 10 to 11 a.m. Kylie McCormick, Historian & Editor of WyoHistory.org will present the talk.

In 1869, Wyoming made history as the first U.S. territory to give women the right to vote. Fifty-one year later, the nation followed Wyoming’s lead. A fresh take on a longstanding controversy, this presentation offers critical new evidence to Wyoming’s suffrage story and restores the contributions to the movement made by both Dr. Grace Raymond Hebard and Esther Hobart Morris.

The second program will be held on Tuesday, May 19, from 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. From the Voices and Votes exhibit section, The Machinery of Democracy, will explore the history of campaigning and votes, and how politicians invented a unique American System of electing representatives. This program will engage Sheridan County’s local politicians with an interview format hosted by Sheridan High School’s We the People: The Citizen and Constitution Program. Discussions will center on local government structures, campaigning, and the voting process

These community programs are at the Museum at the Bighorns Downtown location, 171 N. Main Street, and are free and open to the public.

Both community programs accompany The Voices and Votes: Democracy in American exhibition that examines the nearly 250-year-old American experiment of a government “of, by and for the people,” and how each generation since continues to question how to form “a more perfect union.” The exhibit is open at the Museum till Saturday, June 13th. This exhibit has been made possible in Sheridan, Wyoming at the Museum at the Bighorns by the Wyoming State Museum in Cheyenne and the exhibition is part of Museum on Main Street, a unique collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES)

Museum is open Monday through Saturday 10:00 a.m. –5:00 p.m. Free Museum Admission through August 31, 2026 is generously supported by the Homer A. and Mildred S. Scott Foundation. For more information contract Carrie Ida Edinger Museum Director.

Museum Main: 307 675 1150 or Cell: 302 893 2843

www.museumbighorns.org or director@museumbighorns.org