Features suffrage wagon at the Long Island Museum
Watch the video about special dates in 2023, plus MORE! Dates to mark during the year and holidays featuring freedom struggle! on Vimeo. November 2023 is something for all of us to be aware of—the Night of Terror! Suffrage Wagon News Channel has published since 2009. The Pomeroy Foundation has been busy the past few…
Continue ReadingIt’s a mention by a Hudson Valley historical publication of the book by Marguerite Kearns published by SUNY Press in 2021.
Continue ReadingI like this video and how the “selfie” has been an emotional power tool for much longer than we realize. Here is one of my selfies taken after moving to New Mexico. I made it my business to start with grounding myself in a very different environment. This led to decades of journaling and what…
Continue ReadingMy Aunt Serena was known as Nassau County’s “youngest suffragist.” If there was a poster child for woman’s suffrage, it was little Serena Kearns. Her image was preserved when sitting in her mother Edna’s suffrage campaign wagon with the large bow in her hair. She accompanied her mother in New York City parades and on…
Continue ReadingThe DAR plaque installed at the New Mexico state capitol in June of 2023 was what remained of the many attempts by the DAR chapter in Santa Fe, NM to capture the spirit of the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment to the US Constitution in 2020. Because the COVID emergency resulted…
Continue ReadingSpecial events and fundraisers need a little planning and that’s why a special event right before the holidays sets a mood and a spirit that is more generous than during the rest of the year. Is there a way to combine fun and business? Raise a little money so that you can hire a speaker…
Continue ReadingThere’s a terrific article about women journalists in Substack…a commentary on exactly how far women have come in the journalism profession: https://substack.com/notes/post/p-121253833 It is a terrific way to remember what different folks have asked me over the years. .I started working for a newspaper in 1972. It was a liberating era in the profession when…
Continue Readingby Marguerite Kearns I’m standing on the shoulders of those who have come before me. I’ve been carrying on the work of the ancestors, and passing the torch to those continuing the work. That’s why the efforts of the ERA Coalition are so important. We joined. We’re allies. And part of our work is discovering…
Continue ReadingAnd now, a word from Marguerite Kearns. . . Some folks say I’m writing a memoir. This is true, in part. But there’s much more involved. It’s a record of witness. A RECORD OF WITNESS IS ABOUT RESISTING TORTURE I’ve been in a position to see and participate in a part of reality seldom seen….
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