No Coward’s Epitaph
Players bring history to life in original musical about Montana’s first territorial govenor
Photos by Karen Lewing / Port Polson Players
Vigilantes and Wilbur Sanders in Virginia City Montana. Top left: The part of Thomas Francis Meagher is played by Mike Gillpatrick of St. Ignatius.
Photos by Karen Lewing / Port Polson Players
Jeff Jennison plays the jailer left. John Mitchell,played by John Glueckert, Bob Mazurek as Keven Doherty, and Kyle Stinger as Terence MacManus were all tried as co-conspirators with Thomas Francis Meagher. All were sent to Van Diemen’s Land, current day Tasmania. Only Meagher remains un-pardoned to this day.
Photos by Karen Lewing / Port Polson Players
Meagher met his second wife, Elizabeth, at a soiree in New York, eighteen months after his first wife died. His fellow conspirator, John Mitchel, escaped Van Diemen’s land shortly after Meagher and, with his wife and family, joined Thomas there. Pictured from left are Marty Mazurek (as Jenny Mitchell), Mike Gillpatrick (as Thomas Francis Meagher), Ann Peacock (as Libby Meagher), and John Glueckert as John Mitchell.
Photos by Karen Lewing / Port Polson Players
Photos by Karen Lewing / Port Polson Players
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