Mackey, “Grace Raymond Hebard: Shaping Wyoming’s Past.”
Right to Love
"And I would gladly kiss those flower-stems,
So jealously half-hid by lace and silk;
And in my own how gladly I would hold
Thy warm hand, index of thy noble mind."
-- A poem from Grace to Agnes
(ahcadmin, “Two Pull.”)
McCormick, “Enebo.
Grace lived another kind of right outside of her work life. Her and her beloved companion, Dr. Agnes Wergeland, shared a special bond that challenged the largely heterosexual norms of American society.
Image captured of Grace and Agnes taking a buggy ride through a field of white sweetclover at the UW Experimental Station in Laramie in August 1905. | ahcadmin, “Two Pull.”
"The legacy of Grace and Agnes extends beyond their scholarly contributions or their role in Wyoming’s development. Their story reminds us that even in the most restrictive times, people found ways to build meaningful lives together. Whether in their Laramie home or their beloved summer cabin in the Snowy Range, they created spaces to be fully themselves – as scholars, activists, and companions who held each other through life’s joys and sorrows, even in a time when such love dared not speak its name."
ahcadmin, “Two Pull.”