Western women March 19 show topic

To celebrate Women’s History Month, Boundary County Library presents “Western Women: Pioneers and Prostitutes,” a one-woman show performed by Melinda Strobel on Tuesday, March 19 at 7 p.m. at The Pearl Theatre.

The presentation is being hosted by the Boundary County Library.

The event is free to the public.

This composite presentation introduces audiences to a variety of women who helped shape the American West.

Among them, audiences will “meet” Bethenia Owens-Adair, the first woman doctor in Oregon; stage-coach driver Charley Parkhurst; and Idaho’s own Molly b’Dam’, the legend of Murray.

The spirit of our grandmothers and great grandmothers is brought to life in these humorous, poignant portrayals of struggle and perseverance.

Melinda Strobel studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and has a degree in theater from Willamette University.

She has performed on stage and in film projects both in Oregon and Atlanta, Georgia, and has toured extensively across the United States with her one-woman show, “Susan B. Anthony: The Napoleon of the Movement.”

This program is supported in part by a grant from the Idaho Humanities Council, a state-based program of the National Endowment for the Humanities.