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Article about suffragists in 1912 fills in some of the details of the Long Island campaign. This is where you find out about cake and lemonade, buttons and propaganda. Antonia Petrash’s upcoming 2013 book about Long Island suffrage movement (45 seconds) will add more to what’s known about the movement in the metropolitan NYC area….

Every week the planning moves forward for the August 26th celebration. Events can be large or small. Private or public. With big budgets or a process of assembling what’s around the house. There’s an updated logo for Women’s Equality Day from WomenArts in San Francisco from that’s based on the bugler used by the suffs…

My Aunt Serena Kearns was known as Nassau County’s “youngest suffragist.” If there was a poster child for woman’s suffrage, it was little Serena. Her image was preserved when sitting in her mother Edna’s suffrage campaign wagon, the “Spirit of 1776” with the large bow in her hair. Yes, this is the same wagon on…

I hadn’t planned to be on stage with the Hudson River Playback Theatre. In fact, this was the last thing I predicted the Monday evening I spent attending a performance for organizations attending Service Week at Omega in Rhinebeck, NY. I’d been on the road the previous three weeks from Long Island to Albany to…

The suffrage movement is inspiring storytellers. The tale of the English suffragette slasher is one example from Julie Perini. Other suffrage stories and news from around the U.S. include: Suffrage storyteller Judy Baker. Oregon’s black suffragist story. Kansas women’s stories on film. Extra bonus: the Summer 2012 newsletter for Suffrage Wagon News Channel.

If you haven’t started your special celebration for August 26th (Women’s Equality Day), then you better get started. It’s exactly one month away! Plans are underway for a New Mexico storytelling celebration for August 26th, and it’s part of the state centennial program. New Mexico became a state in 1912, and suffrage was an issue…

The Summer 2012 newsletter for Suffrage Wagon News Channel is available with the effort of a click. The following video clip from “Newsies” is the chorale, “Seize the Day.” The news of the suffrage movement got out in the streets hand by hand. And digitally, that’s what Suffrage Wagon News Channel is doing now. Give…

The office is closed. Am out enjoying the 164th anniversary of Seneca Falls. The following blog posting comes to you by way of the National Women’s History Project: On July 19-20, 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott spearheaded the first women’s rights convention in American History. Over 300 women and men came to Seneca…

There’s very little film footage from the suffrage movement, so this 80-second clip from the National Film Preservation Foundation is a treasure. It’s entitled “On to Washington.” The occasion is the suffrage hiking march with Rosalie Jones and Elisabeth Freeman and others who headed south to Washington, DC to join the suffrage parade scheduled to…

Grandmother Edna Kearns took the “Spirit of 1776” wagon to Long Beach in July of 1913. When she drove the suffrage campaign wagon onto the beach, it caused quite a stir, not to mention when she stood in the waves and wore a yellow bathing cap and a yellow sash while holding signs that were…