Features suffrage wagon at the Long Island Museum
by Ramona Dayton Every December we have a moment of silence for Edna Buckman Kearns and her granddaughter Marguerite who has been working to bring the story of Edna and her allies Wilmer and Serena out of the shadows and into the hearts and minds of US residents, female, male and others, young and old….
Continue ReadingWatch custom-made videos made by Marguerite Kearns on Suffrage Wagon News Channel… The 1913 journey of the “Spirit of 1776” suffrage campaign wagon used by Edna Kearns! on Vimeo. Edna Buckman Kearns was born in the month of December 1882. December is the month of the birthday celebration for Suffrage Wagon News Channel. “We have…
Continue ReadingWatch the video… Happy birthday, Suffrage Wagon News Channel on Vimeo. Suffrage Wagon News Channel has been publishing since 2009! Do you have questions about the “Spirit of 1776,” the suffrage campaign wagon used by Edna Buckman Kearns during 1913 in New York City and Long Island? The horse drawn suffrage campaign wagon is in…
Continue ReadingMusings by Marguerite Kearns When I collaborated with my mother Wilma when living in Woodstock, New York, I grew used to her accumulation of books like the book with the green cover, Cooks, Gluttons & Gourmets: A History of Cookery by Betty Watson. My mom found plenty of these works. She bought them. We discussed…
Continue Readingby Marguerite Kearns The idea that all suffrage activists were racists continues to describe this period. The US was designed as a top-down social and economic system, then as now. We are still suffering the results of this structure…today, as well as then. Edna Buckman Kearns didn’t support this, even though her “best friend” Bess…
Continue Readingby Marguerite Kearns Working with my mother Wilma Kearns Culp during the 1980s was transformative. She had reached a point in her later life when this collaboration was exactly what she needed. I was involved in another issue, so researching our family history was both “wonderful” and “challenging. For her, the exercise was “stimulating.” Wilma…
Continue Reading\ 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…
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