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 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 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 ReadingBuried in my past is a history I spent with Toshi Seeger, the pivotal woman behind the scenes at Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, during the years I was editor and reporter for Woodstock Times, the Hudson Valley independent newspaper. There I learned from Toshi Seeger, the spouse of folk performer Pete Seeger, the importance of…
Continue ReadingThe exhibition of the “Spirit of 1776” suffrage wagon has been extended for several weeks past the closing of the Votes for Women exhibition on May 13, 2018.
Continue ReadingBRAVO! Here at Suffrage Wagon News Channel we’ve been advocating for years that tea become a theme of our celebrations.
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