Features suffrage wagon at the Long Island Museum
\ by Marguerite Kearns I can remember how I started thinking, well after I started on this trail—“Is it possible to have an equal, or peer marriage, within a top-down social system?? More often than not, I was greeted with the response…”That’s a provocative question.” It certainly started us thinking, and I wasn’t impressed with…
Continue ReadingThe “Spirit of 1776” suffrage campaign wagon will be exhibited at the Long Island Museum in Stony Brook, New York (Long Island), in February 2025. Many folks in the US and around the world are looking forward to this opening. Watch this video about the “Spirit of 1776” suffrage campaign wagon. Suffrage Wagon News Channel…
Continue ReadingI have worn many hats, including descendant, writer, author, authority, and more. So I wasn’t prepared for the 2024 claim that supposedly happened decades years before when my mother Wilma allegedly promised Edna’s antique telephone used in the “votes for women” grassroots organizing to a family member. No related policy existed, Since this episode couldn’t…
Continue ReadingThis volunteer project has been supported by many people over the years. They have included family members, organizations, friends, and supporters. This process has gone on so long that it has been the part of a long process of donations and offerings of love and appreciation. Many people have donated time, energy, research assistance, and…
Continue Readingby Marguerite Kearns The two existing suffrage campaign wagons, one at the New York State Museum and the other at the Smithsonian, are very different. The one used by Edna Buckman Kearns and others in New York City and Long Island was broader in its coverage on the blog and related book, Suffrage Wagon News…
Continue ReadingMusings by Marguerite Kearns Watch a video and remember me as reading a book about Rosalie Gardiner Jones decades ago. Rosalie Jones was the daughter of a prominent Long Island family who supported US women voting while her parents and sister didn’t back in 1912. Daughter Rosalie Jones didn’t agree with the idea that her…
Continue ReadingHere’s another thought from SuffrageWagon.org— Edna Buckman Kearns wrote once that the accomplishments of the women campaigning for the right to vote were the result of “small things.” Suffrage Wagon News Channel or Suffrage Wagon News Channel has been publishing since 2009.
Continue ReadingMarguerite’s Musings: I never imagined what has actually happened. It seems that others speak of little more than “the sky is blue”or” it snowed or rained a lot today.” Little of substance passes for a real exchange.” Occasionally we are informed by other messages, such as “this social and political situation results in me…
Continue Readingby Marguerite Kearns I’m cleaning up in the space also known as my “home” in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I remember my first book on nutrition when we lived in West Hurley, New York —almost straight off the boat from Denver, Colorado, after we moved to the Hudson Valley. The Catskill Mountains were puny compared…
Continue ReadingIf you have liked the votes for women or suffrage videos so far, check out many more videos about this topic on Vimeo.com There, the news channel editor and writer Marguerite Kearns (or KearnsMarguerite) has posted the more than 300 videos she has made to publicize the suffrage wagon used by Edna Buckman Kearns donated…
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