Suffrage Wagon Cooking School clears the decks to make great cup of coffee  on Vimeo.

Suffrage Wagon Cooking School celebrates its first birthday this year. We’ll be visiting farmers’ markets this summer and blazing new trails, that is, if you come along with us. Over the past year, our in-house chef has featured how to make a pot of tea, roasted corn (in honor of Edna Kearns), as well as scones and fortune cookies. Now Chef Cutting will demonstrate making coffee with a French press. This video is the preview. And the actual demonstration is coming soon!

Coffee is a wake-up call for action. There are two action campaigns that need your support: the Equal Rights Amendment in Congress AND a petition to the legislature of the State of New York to get moving on creating and funding a 2017 commission to celebrate the state’s 100 anniversary of women winning the vote.

Go ASAP to the petition to light a fire under the NYS Legislature about a 2017 funded commission for the 2017 suffrage centennial.

The ERA Ratification bills have been introduced into the 114th Congress. Your help is needed now to show support. EqualRightsAmendment.org is an informative web platform operated by the Alice Paul Institute. For more information on the Equal Rights Amendment, visit the Equal Rights Coalition. More about this as the bills wind their way through the U.S. Congress. This is what our suffrage ancestors initiated and it’s our job to complete the work!

IN OTHER NEWS: The “10 Days in a Madhouse” film was screened at the Cannes film festival. It’s the story of Nellie Bly and her undercover ten days in a mental hospital before the turn of the 20th century. Nellie also covered the 1913 suffrage parade in Washington, DC.

During May, Suffrage Wagon Cafe featured an interview with Eighty Bug, the award-winning performer and song writer of “Spirit of 1776: A New Suffragette Anthem.” And her dessert recipes at Suffrage Wagon Cooking School were a hit too.

Did you miss April’s news notes video from the news channel? Here it is.

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“Choose it and Use it” is a video reminding us of how the past is linked to what we do today and its impact on the future. Celebrate women’s freedom to vote.