Features suffrage wagon at the Long Island Museum
DON’T FORGET THE ZOOM READING OF THE BOOK BY MARGUERITE KEARNS REVIEW OF BOOK: NEARO PUBLICATION, JULY 2021 “..a book that is both beautifully written and thoroughly researched” Lynn Coffin NYS suffrage activists hit the ground running in 1915! on Vimeo.
Continue ReadingSuffrage Wagon News Channel is as much about food as voting rights and a new book from SUNY Press by Marguerite Kearns.
Continue ReadingRegister to attend the July 28, 2021 6 p.m. Mountain Time zoom reading with Marguerite Kearns. ALSO, Live interview with author Marguerite Kearns and host Carol Boss on “Women’s Focus,” KUNM radio. Saturday, July 24, 12-1 pm, Mountain Time from The University of New Mexico. Suffrage Wagon News Channel has been publishing since 2009.
Continue ReadingThere’s always something new to discover about the ongoing effort to stay in touch with one of the symbols of women’s freedom for the past, present, and future. The Spirit of ’76 suffrage campaign wagon. Watch for a book signing in Albany, New York, LIVE. An Unfinished Revolution: Edna Buckman Kearns and the Struggle for…
Continue ReadingWe’re covering the efforts underway to gather support for making August 26th, Women’s Equality Day, a day of federal recognition. Follow the campaign to make an Equal Rights Amendment part of the US Constitution. This is work ongoing since 1923. The book by Marguerite Kearns from SUNY Press about Edna Kearns and her…
Continue ReadingPassing the Torch to the next generation is the job of women’s suffrage activists in every generation. The Spirit of 1776 suffrage wagon is part of this campaigning.
Continue Reading Through the Eye of Marguerite Kearns: Writing as the descendant of suffrage activists! on Vimeo. Even though Edna and Wilmer met in secret after meeting in downtown Philadelphia, Edna told Wilmer it would be best if they were “just friends.” Wilmer was stunned, yet patient. He’d fallen in love with her already but was…
Continue Reading“An Unfinished Revolution: Edna B. Kearns and the Struggle for Women’s Rights” by Robert P.J. Cooney, Jr. Edna Kearns’ husband Wilmer faced a dilemma: does he risk censure, and worse, from his neighbors and colleagues or does he renounce his wife’s dedication to equal rights? This was a perplexing question that many others had faced…
Continue ReadingFind out the entire story of The Spirit of 1776 suffrage campaign wagpn. “It was also referred to as the Spirit of ’76” wagon in my family,” says Marguerite Kearns, author of the An Unfinished Revolution: Edna Buckman Kearns and the Struggle for Women’s Rights. It’s the story of activism as experienced through the lens…
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