Features suffrage wagon at the Long Island Museum
If 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.
Continue Readingby Marguerite Kearns I was working on what makes me happy recently. And I emerged from a bout reading about how to make terrific Chinese food, with color images of completed dishes ready to serve. I had a smile on my face and realized how much I love the Chinese new year at the start…
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…
Continue ReadingIn this upcoming election in 2024 of two older men, we are anticipating the end of US male candidates for the US presidency and the fact that the United States still doesn’t have a history of a woman serving in the nation’s highest office. Let’s keep this issue alive. The prejudice against women still rears…
Continue ReadingBy Marguerite Kearns This is what I wrote on Saturday, May 11, 2024…It’s not supposed to be great or pathetic. It’s what emerged from my pen in the aftermath of an optimistic phone blurb. It’s preferable to be optimistic than pessimistic and “negative.” I suppose they have a point, but it’s useless unless it’s part…
Continue Readingby Marguerite Kearns Each Saturday is the same. Each Saturday is different. We operate in a similar way each week, and everyone’s output is vastly varied. I’m speaking about visiting the posting the fruits of each week’s session. We all get to contribute to a group poem, hosted by James Nave. I got to meet…
Continue ReadingDid you know about the layers of responsibilities women face so they aren’t able to view the “Spirit of 1776” suffrage campaign wagon when it’s up for exhibition? Vimeo presents over 300 videos made by Marguerite Kearns. Reviewing books was once a priority of Suffrage Wagon News Channel at SuffrageWagon.org. Then there were so many…
Continue ReadingThe effort to bring food into the picture of gathering support for women organizing to win the vote is clear and ongoing. This has lead to many openings including anchor Marguerite Kearns spending the spring semester of 2024 working on her second book during her graduate semester that included “Narrative Journalism.” That’s when Dr. Patricia…
Continue ReadingAsk anchor Marguerite Kearns for an update to answer this question… by Marguerite Kearns Updates are challenging. I was terrific in terms of intention, and much less so in followup. I have many documented instances of explanations and excuses to present here. I even evaluated my strengths and weaknesses. I decided that I was weak…
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