Features suffrage wagon at the Long Island Museum
October is New York State Month at the New York State Museum. Find out some of the displays that can be seen NOW about items linked to women’s history at the state museum. And below you can find a gift idea that will make the receiver smile. With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for…
Continue ReadingWatch 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 ReadingThere’s a lot of interest in the suffrage wagon coming from New Mexico. People are fascinated with this part of American history, no matter where they live. While New Mexico wasn’t high profile in the suffrage movement, the state’s women played an important part in the overall movement. Adelina “Nina” Otero-Warren played a key role…
Continue ReadingWhen my grandfather fell in love with Edna, he was shocked that she found anything interesting about him. This is one of the many stories about Edna and Wilmer Kearns before they made activism a family affair. When the world agonized about international tensions, Alice Paul and her organization held tea parties at their Washington…
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 ReadingEdna Buckman Kearns stood on the shoulders of those who came before her. She volunteered for the cause during her lifetime. And she passed a suffrage movement torch to my mother and me who have carried on Edna’s work. I’m passing a torch to others who are carrying on Edna’s work of gathering support for…
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