Tectonic Theater Project
On 6 October 1998 Matthew Shepard was beaten and left to die tied to a fence in the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming. He died 6 days later. His torture and murder became a watershed historical moment in America that highlighted many of the fault lines in our culture.
A month after the murder the members of Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie and conducted interviews with the people of the town. From these interviews they wrote the play "The Laramie Project". The piece has been seen by more than 30 million people around the country.
Lady Mary Shepherd
Lady Mary Shepherd, "née" Primrose (31 December 1777 - 7 January 1847) was a Scottish philosopher. Shepherd was the author of at least two philosophical books. According to Robert Blakey, who gave her an entry in his "History of the Philosophy of the Mind", she exercised considerable influence over the Edinburgh philosophy of her day.