Features suffrage wagon at the Long Island Museum
by 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 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 ReadingOne of the best decisions about storytelling in my life has been the low cost to free writing sessions of Imaginative Storm on Saturday mornings. Then Allegra Huston, with James Nave, combines song and dance with writing and expression that I would never accomplish otherwise. Allegra has had frequent postings of Imaginative Storm that I…
Continue Reading“It has been since 2007 that I have also been writing. photographing, and editing for the Espanola Farmers Market,” says Marguerite Kearns who has also been blogging for Suffrage Wagon News Channel since 2009. Kearns will witness a change in market management during 2024. Check out another example of grassroots organizing by linking to: EspanolaFarmersMarket@blogspot.com…
Continue ReadingWe have relied on many many people who have contributed to the uphill task of taking the story of Edna Buckman Kearns to the broader public. This has included the contributions of numerous people, organizations, and the luck of presence and courage. We have attempted to break the rules of engagement in many ways and…
Continue Readingby Marguerite Kearns The women activists who put their lives, families, and reputations on the line so we could vote today didn’t speak with one voice. They debated and engaged in loud and chronic disagreements. There were hundreds of suffrage organizations. Yes, with many perspectives I didn’t agree with, then or now. But that doesn’t…
Continue ReadingIn 2026 the United States will hold its 250th birthday and the event may move forward with US women empowered with the right to vote. However, this 2026 information (so far) is being presented without even a mention of girls and women in key digital places, as if we don’t exist. You bet, we’re noticing….
Continue Readingby Ramona Dayton It wasn’t easy to promote Marguerite’s maternal grandmother Edna who volunteered in the “votes for women” or suffrage movement during 1913 in New York City and Long Island. Edna Buckman Kearns was a writer, a speaker, a representative, a grassroots organizer, and someone who consistently spoke for women who “needed” the right…
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