Features suffrage wagon at the Long Island Museum
BLOG POST ABOUT SUFF ACTIVIST ELISABETH FREEMAN Peg Johnston, suffrage activist Elisabeth Freeman’s great niece, contacted me recently. Here’s her post ro say that s she gathered the energy to write about Elisabeth that was inspired by a book that has made its way to us suffrage nuts. See below. Edna Kearns and Elisabeth Freeman…
Continue ReadingSUFFRAGETTES ANTHEM – SPIRIT OF 1776 from on Vimeo. Make sure that you see the inauguration live at 2. p.m. EST from New York. It is historic, and the “Spirit of 1776” suffrage wagon used by Edna Kearns. in 1913 in. New York City and Long Island has an important part! Suffrage Wagon News Channel…
Continue ReadingWATCH THE INAUGURATION OF NEW YORK STATE’S FIRST WOMAN GOVERNOR, KATHY HOCHUL Make sure you’re on hand to watch the inaugural ceremony of Kathy Hochul, first woman elected governor of New York State. It’s scheduled for January 1, 2023, EST, at 2. p.m. Watch online by searching for live coverage! A special thanks to those…
Continue ReadingSuffragists Martha Wright & Edna Kearns Dec. 25th birthdays on Vimeo. In 2022, activist and writer Edna Buckman Kearns will be celebrating her 140th birthday. And suffrage activist Martha Coffin Wright is 216 years old. For bookings and interviews, leave a message for Marguerite Kearns (855) toll free 553 3666. This multi-media suffrage news channel…
Continue Reading“Alice Paul brought back to the fight that note of immediacy which had gone with the passing of Miss Anthony’s leadership. She called a halt on further pleading, wheedling, proving, praying. It was as if she had bidden women stand erect, with confidence in themselves and in their own judgments, and compelled them to be…
Continue Readingby Marguerite Kearns This illustrati9n accompanied a feature article about the Spirit of 1776 horsedrawn suffrage campaign wagon in the collection of the New York State Museum in Albany, New York. The feature article appeared in New York History Journal tbat is published by Columbia University. The imagined documentary or feature series about my grandmother…
Continue ReadingFrom Marguerite Kearns: It’s easy to forget the effort and enormous accomplishments of the past when facing the unknown. and what we perceive to be prejudice and discrimination in the present moment. And so I am persisting in remembering. One thing that lent itself to invisibility was the networking many of us engaged with over…
Continue ReadingI couldn’t have been more elated than when a review of my book, An Unfinished Revolution: Edna Buckman Kearns and the Struggle for Women’s Rights appeared in the Friends Journal of August 2022. Prior to this, Friends Journal has kept a distance from memoir and family history. This would make sense back in the days…
Continue ReadingA historical marker has been relocated from the boardwalk in Long Beach, NY to Northern Blvd. for reasons of size. This is the second marker installed on Long Island commemorating Edna Kearns’s suffrage organizing and her “Spirit of 1776” suffrage wagon. Robert F. Keeler of Stony Brook, NY represented granddaughter Marguerite Kearns at a marker…
Continue ReadingOverview of early women’s rights on Suffrage Wagon News Channel! on Vimeo. Suffrage Wagon News Channel has been publishing since 2009. For bookings and interviews, leave a message for Marguerite Kearns (855) toll free 553 3666.
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