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Historical Research: In addition to the historical consultants who have worked on this play, Bette Yeager thanks the Department of Archives and Manuscripts, Birmingham Public Library, Birmingham, Alabama, for access to the Pattie Ruffner Jacobs Papers, and the Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama, for access to the Hallie Farmer Papers. Thanks also go to Pattie Ruffner Jacobs' grandson, John Hillhouse, and his wife Virginia Hillhouse, and to the colleagues and students of Hallie Farmer, especially Dr. Ethel Rasmussen. Interviews with these people greatly assisted in bringing to life these Women Great of Heart.
Theatrical Support. In addition to the theatrical consultants for the play, Bette Yeager has been assisted by many other theatre people. Tom McClellan, teacher of a playwrighting workshop, and fellow classmates Rusty Bynum and Jean Greenwood, were audience members and helpful critics for the earliest drafts of Women Great of Heart. They joined Jane Kilbride, Beth Thames, Bob Baker, Randy Hall, Carolyn Edwards, Lynne Rieff, Rose Norman, Bob Crump, and Anna Sue Courtney at a workshop performance two weeks before the premiere. Ms. Yeager would like to express her special thanks to Elizabeth Perry, Broadway actor/playwright, who mentored her through the dramatization process and who directed the first staged reading of Women Great of Heart for The American Renaissance Theatre Company (ARTC) in New York City. Ms. Perry is the co-founder of ARTC, a developmental and producing group of theatre artists which has been producing new works for twenty-six years.
Production Support: Beth Twente and Twente Productions, Decatur; Bob Baker, Renaissance Theatre at Lincoln Center (Huntsville), Alan Davis, and Karen Lynn Parker.