Features suffrage wagon at the Long Island Museum
Marguerite’s Musings: On Thanksgiving Day I’ll be off for our 2013 family holiday gathering. It’s a day when I’m not wondering if the laundry basket is full, or the bed made, the carpet vacuumed, or the newspapers picked up from the front porch where they’ve stacked up for days. On Thanksgiving I’m in charge of…
Continue ReadingMarguerite’s Musings: When Thanksgiving comes around each year, I love to cook and become the center of attention like I did at age ten. My mother Wilma didn’t mind telling people about how she was a terrible cook. This was always accompanied by the explanation that her own mother, Edna Kearns, was a suffrage and…
Continue ReadingYou can read all about the “Spirit of 1776” suffrage wagon’s confrontation and threats in an article from the fall issue of “New York Archives” that’s still on the stands. The trip from New York City to Long Island for a month of campaigning in 1913 had a high point when the wagon arrived in…
Continue ReadingThe suffrage movement or “women’s suffrage” may seem like a niche topic, yet the news items concerning Votes for Women events and activities increase by the day. Here’s a sampling: Statewide conference planning underway for 2017 suffrage centennial of women voting in New York State by CRREO (the Center for Research, Regional Education and Outreach)…
Continue ReadingI suspect that Grandmother Edna Kearns is behind some of our family activity these days. Though I never knew my grandmother because she died in 1934, she influenced my life profoundly. And it’s not just me. Edna has another granddaughter, Winifred Culp, who’s a mover and shaker, and the spirit is spreading. See Safe Fabric…
Continue ReadingNovember 12th is Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s birthday, and it’s my mother Wilma’s birthday as well. And don’t forget my friend and collaborator Olivia Twine who weighs in with November 12th as her birthday. November is heavily weighted with women’s birthdays, and the National Women’s History Project does a great job of pointing this out. After…
Continue ReadingThe report of the 2013 blogging tour of the “Cradle” of the women’s rights movement in the United States continues with a two-part article by Olivia Twine and Marguerite Kearns in New York History. Part I: “The politics of Harriet Tubman and Barack Obama.” #1. #2. Part II: “Harriet Tubman and the Projected National Park.” #1….
Continue ReadingArticle about rocking the Cradle in the Finger Lakes of New York State. Last week I returned from Texas cotton country where my sister Winifred Culp received an award for her work with NearSea Naturals (sustainable and organic fabrics) from the Texas Organic Cotton Marketing Cooperative in Lubbock, Texas. Grandmother Edna would be proud. One…
Continue ReadingTHE WORD IS OUT about the next step of the news about the UK feature film on the suffrage movement. The work, previously known as “The Fury,” has now been changed in name to “Suffragette.” The drama is due to shoot in February 2014. Alternative-comics master Peter Bagge has published the work, “Woman Rebel: The…
Continue ReadingAn old friend, Chef Cutting, dropped by the Suffrage Wagon Cooking School to show us how to prepare fresh English scones. Check in with the link. He’s not only making them for Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony, but also as a way to remember Elizabeth Cady Stanton. November 12th is Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s birthday,…
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