Features suffrage wagon at the Long Island Museum
by Marguerite Kearns The two existing suffrage campaign wagons, one at the New York State Museum and the other at the Smithsonian, are very different. The one used by Edna Buckman Kearns and others in New York City and Long Island was broader in its coverage on the blog and related book, Suffrage Wagon News…
Continue ReadingMusings by Marguerite Kearns Watch a video and remember me as reading a book about Rosalie Gardiner Jones decades ago. Rosalie Jones was the daughter of a prominent Long Island family who supported US women voting while her parents and sister didn’t back in 1912. Daughter Rosalie Jones didn’t agree with the idea that her…
Continue ReadingHere’s another thought from SuffrageWagon.org— Edna Buckman Kearns wrote once that the accomplishments of the women campaigning for the right to vote were the result of “small things.” Suffrage Wagon News Channel or Suffrage Wagon News Channel has been publishing since 2009.
Continue ReadingMarguerite’s Musings: I never imagined what has actually happened. It seems that others speak of little more than “the sky is blue”or” it snowed or rained a lot today.” Little of substance passes for a real exchange.” Occasionally we are informed by other messages, such as “this social and political situation results in me…
Continue Readingby Marguerite Kearns I’m cleaning up in the space also known as my “home” in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I remember my first book on nutrition when we lived in West Hurley, New York —almost straight off the boat from Denver, Colorado, after we moved to the Hudson Valley. The Catskill Mountains were puny compared…
Continue ReadingIf you have liked the votes for women or suffrage videos so far, check out many more videos about this topic on Vimeo.com There, the news channel editor and writer Marguerite Kearns (or KearnsMarguerite) has posted the more than 300 videos she has made to publicize the suffrage wagon used by Edna Buckman Kearns donated…
Continue Readingby Marguerite Kearns This image is one of the road and street markers on Long Island in New York State funded by the Pomeroy Foundation (Long Beach, NY) honoring my grandmother, Edna Buckman Kearns, who lived in New York City and Rockville Centre, NY with her husband and later, first daughter Serena, my mother’s older…
Continue ReadingOne of the best decisions about storytelling in my life has been the low cost to free writing sessions of Imaginative Storm on Saturday mornings. Then Allegra Huston, with James Nave, combines song and dance with writing and expression that I would never accomplish otherwise. Allegra has had frequent postings of Imaginative Storm that I…
Continue ReadingAugust 26th is celebrated throughout the US. Our sister site, SuffrageCentennials.com is a member of the ERA Coalition. The year, 2023, was the 100th anniversary of US women working for an equal rights amendment to the US Constitution. Plenty of activity has been the goal of us working for equality. The roots of patriarchy are…
Continue Readingby Marguerite Kearns I’m taking stock of the disaster that’s developing with these family secrets. They go on and on, and I have the capacity to still say…I did the best I could and hope that the situation isn’t too bad. I find it hard to take when people speak from both sides of their…
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