Features suffrage wagon at the Long Island Museum
by 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…
Continue ReadingA MARTYR OF THE WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT—INEZ MILHOLLAND Today is Inez Milholland’s birthday. . . She worked with Edna Buckman Kearns in the movement to win the right to vote in NYS. Inez Milholland, the U.S. suffrage martyr! on Vimeo. In 2016 Marguerite Kearns and Bob Cooney spent a year commemorating online the death of…
Continue Reading“It has been since 2007 that I have also been writing. photographing, and editing for the Espanola Farmers Market,” says Marguerite Kearns who has also been blogging for Suffrage Wagon News Channel since 2009. Kearns will witness a change in market management during 2024. Check out another example of grassroots organizing by linking to: EspanolaFarmersMarket@blogspot.com…
Continue ReadingThis volunteer project focusing on suffrage and peace activist Edna Buckman Kearns is bigger than all of us. It has entered the mainstream and opened doors for many. Right now with the deemphasis on the past and the isolation of the present, it may not seem as if deep coverage of a relatively unknown activist…
Continue Reading“I wish I could say it has been a slam dunk process, but it hasn’t been,” says suffrage or “votes for women” advocate Marguerite Kearns. “When we started this project, voting was on the decline. Many people were burnt out, but we’ve witnessed a complete turnaround since then.” The goal of fair, reasonable, and easy…
Continue ReadingWe have relied on many many people who have contributed to the uphill task of taking the story of Edna Buckman Kearns to the broader public. This has included the contributions of numerous people, organizations, and the luck of presence and courage. We have attempted to break the rules of engagement in many ways and…
Continue ReadingThe “Spirit of 1776” horse-drawn suffrage campaign wagon will be on exhibit at the “Voices and Votes” exhibit at the Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages in Stony Brook, New York, from February 25, 2025 to April 6, 2025. Stony Brook is located on Long Island, east of New York City. Suffrage…
Continue Readingby Marguerite Kearns Recently I wasn’t expecting the attitude from a friend who lectured me about how the past was “bad” and the present day was “good.” I was puzzled until I read on the internet that this is a contemporary movement to downplay differences and potential disasters. While I agree that the passage of…
Continue ReadingWhat was it like for the residents of Long Island (outside of New York City) when the Brits took over political control of New York City and Long Island following the Battle of Long Island in 1777? The colonial patriots and their general, George Washington, lost that battle, and the tax controversies of the English…
Continue ReadingErich Fromm’s book, Escape from Freedom, was published in 1941. He was born in 1900. This combination certainly qualifies as “the past.” Fromm is easy to ignore because freedom is a popular topic. Fromm believes that if Americans actually believed in freedom and held it to their chests as a valuable goal, they would most…
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