Features suffrage wagon at the Long Island Museum
by 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…
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…
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