Features suffrage wagon at the Long Island Museum
The roadside marker in Huntington, NY, officially dedicated on Tuesday, April 24, 2018, is now part of the downtown business area near Wall and Main Streets. The marker is part of a program of the William G. Pomeroy Foundation to erect historic road markers throughout New York State.
Continue ReadingThe suffrage campaign wagon used by Edna Buckman Kearns and others on Long Island and in New York City parades is an example of the extensive use of “visual rhetoric” used by the suffragists in addition to the written and spoken word. This wagon also tapped into the tradition of the American Revolution by the…
Continue Readingby Marguerite Kearns Flash announcement of a date to celebrate the unveiling of a road marker on the main street of Huntington, NY related to the “Spirit of 1776” suffrage campaign wagon. The event: Tuesday, April 24, 2018, at 12:30 p.m. on the main street of Huntington, NY. More details will follow this preliminary announcement….
Continue ReadingThe “Spirit of 1776″wagon caused an uproar in July of 1913. THE HOW AND WHY OF WHAT HAPPENED: by Marguerite Kearns Back in elementary school, no teacher of mine ever mentioned that during the war for independence significant numbers of Americans identified themselves with the British. Nothing demonstrates this more clearly than Long Island as…
Continue ReadingSuffrage politics were hot during 1913. And that’s one story behind the dedication ceremony on April 24, 2018 for a new historic roadside marker program to become part of Huntington, NY’s business district. It was funded by the William G. Pomeroy Foundation throughout New York State. The road marker scheduled for Huntington documents a confrontation between…
Continue Reading Marguerite Kearns and her suffrage activist grandparents! on Vimeo. The story of the “Spirit of 1776” suffrage wagon started when I was ten years old when asking my grandfather Wilmer Kearns questions about the horse drawn wagon stored in his garage. That’s the beginning. The plot thickened as I asked more questions and put…
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