Features suffrage wagon at the Long Island Museum
by Marguerite Kearns I’m wondering if my thinking about women working together makes any sense. If I am to make a statement now, it’s not hopeful and optimistic. Everyone in the family acts loving and hopeful. Behind the scenes it isn’t like that at all. Patriarchy has deep roots, even to the point where it…
Continue ReadingIf I were to grade the public relations efforts of those gathering support for our nation’s 250th birthday, I would give them a zero at the present time. You’d think that the nation’s women liked only ringing bells. That may be true, but only partially. The women identifying with the women’s suffrage movement loved liberty…
Continue ReadingIn 2026 the United States will hold its 250th birthday and the event may move forward with US women empowered with the right to vote. However, this 2026 information (so far) is being presented without even a mention of girls and women in key digital places, as if we don’t exist. You bet, we’re noticing….
Continue Reading“Because the Spirit of 1776 suffrage campaign wagon is one of two in the US of museum exhibit quality, it has an importance that has been underestimated until now.” Quotation from Marguerite Kearns, 2024. Suffrage Wagon News Channel (SuffrageWagon.org) has been publishing since 2009.
Continue Readingby Marguerite Kearns I was working on what makes me happy recently. And I emerged from a bout reading about how to make terrific Chinese food, with color images of completed dishes ready to serve. I had a smile on my face and realized how much I love the Chinese new year at the start…
Continue Readingby Ramona Dayton It wasn’t easy to promote Marguerite’s maternal grandmother Edna who volunteered in the “votes for women” or suffrage movement during 1913 in New York City and Long Island. Edna Buckman Kearns was a writer, a speaker, a representative, a grassroots organizer, and someone who consistently spoke for women who “needed” the right…
Continue Readingby Marguerite Kearns This opinion column is a reaction to how it is increasingly popular to punish more Americans with “involuntary treatment” of their so-called political opinions and freedom of speech. Forced treatment can increasingly result in outcomes like me walking away as a result of involuntary and potentially violent treatment. There is more. I…
Continue ReadingIn this upcoming election in 2024 of two older men, we are anticipating the end of US male candidates for the US presidency and the fact that the United States still doesn’t have a history of a woman serving in the nation’s highest office. Let’s keep this issue alive. The prejudice against women still rears…
Continue ReadingBy Marguerite Kearns This is what I wrote on Saturday, May 11, 2024…It’s not supposed to be great or pathetic. It’s what emerged from my pen in the aftermath of an optimistic phone blurb. It’s preferable to be optimistic than pessimistic and “negative.” I suppose they have a point, but it’s useless unless it’s part…
Continue Readingby Marguerite Kearns Each Saturday is the same. Each Saturday is different. We operate in a similar way each week, and everyone’s output is vastly varied. I’m speaking about visiting the posting the fruits of each week’s session. We all get to contribute to a group poem, hosted by James Nave. I got to meet…
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