Features suffrage wagon at the Long Island Museum
by Marguerite Kearns Recently I wasn’t expecting the attitude from a friend who lectured me about how the past was “bad” and the present day was “good.” I was puzzled until I read on the internet that this is a contemporary movement to downplay differences and potential disasters. While I agree that the passage of…
Continue ReadingWhat was it like for the residents of Long Island (outside of New York City) when the Brits took over political control of New York City and Long Island following the Battle of Long Island in 1777? The colonial patriots and their general, George Washington, lost that battle, and the tax controversies of the English…
Continue ReadingErich Fromm’s book, Escape from Freedom, was published in 1941. He was born in 1900. This combination certainly qualifies as “the past.” Fromm is easy to ignore because freedom is a popular topic. Fromm believes that if Americans actually believed in freedom and held it to their chests as a valuable goal, they would most…
Continue Readingby Marguerite Kearns We don’t eliminate US history simply because it happened in the past. I was in an argument recently with someone over this exact question. The past is elusive. For many, the past may have occurred over a hundred years ago. Or the past could describe less than a minute ago. OTHER CONSIDERATIONS….
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 ReadingWho could have predicted this? I couldn’t have. This is why Suffrage Wagon News Channel has another agenda—to keep the voting issue alive. Suffrage Wagon News Channel has been publishing since 2009.
Continue ReadingYou’d think that US women have been sufficiently punished for having thoughts of an overview like this. It is fashionable to write off individuals like me as being old fashioned. Instead, we are insulted and charged with being “negative.” Voters Thank Their Suffrage Ancestors on Vimeo. It’s true that the big movement raising gender issues…
Continue Readingby Marguerite Kearns I’m wondering if my thinking about women working together makes any sense. If I am to make a statement now, it’s not hopeful and optimistic. Everyone in the family acts loving and hopeful. Behind the scenes it isn’t like that at all. Patriarchy has deep roots, even to the point where it…
Continue ReadingIf I were to grade the public relations efforts of those gathering support for our nation’s 250th birthday, I would give them a zero at the present time. You’d think that the nation’s women liked only ringing bells. That may be true, but only partially. The women identifying with the women’s suffrage movement loved liberty…
Continue Reading“Because the Spirit of 1776 suffrage campaign wagon is one of two in the US of museum exhibit quality, it has an importance that has been underestimated until now.” Quotation from Marguerite Kearns, 2024. Suffrage Wagon News Channel (SuffrageWagon.org) has been publishing since 2009.
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