COMING on May 8, 2015: Performer & songwriter Eighty Bug at Suffrage Wagon Cafe!

Video announcement. We’ll be featuring the award-winning performer and songwriter Eighty Bug at the next program of Suffrage Wagon Cafe on May 8, 2015.  What award? It’s for the music video, “Spirit of 1776: A New Suffragette Anthem.” And Eighty assembled quite a production team, plus an enormous boost from the Heritage Museum of Orange…

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Marguerite Kearns and Suffrage Wagon win award for personal opinion and storytelling!

Suffrage Wagon Cafe: A great place for women’s suffrage programs, music, & film on Vimeo. Watch the video about Suffrage Wagon Cafe that will be featuring more about the awards for Suffrage Wagon News Channel. Suffrage Wagon News Channel, the recipient of an award from New Mexico Press Women, was honored at the organization’s annual…

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The inside story of suffragist Isabella Beecher Hooker!

Never heard of Isabella Beecher Hooker? Don’t worry. Her story has just hit the mainstream with a new book by Susan Campbell. And Olivia Twine takes us back to the past for an overview. SuffrageCentennials.com recommends places to go during upcoming suffrage centennial events and celebrations. There’s the 2017 suffrage centennial observance in New York…

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Suffrage Wagon Bookshelf features book about Isabella Beecher Hooker

VIDEO: Isabella Beecher Hooker book by Susan Campbell featured on Suffrage Wagon Bookshelf on Vimeo. Suffrage Wagon Bookshelf is featuring Tempest-Tossed, The Spirit of Isabella Beecher Hooker (Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT, 2014). COMING SOON: Olivia Twine’s feature article on Susan Campbell’s book about Isabella Beecher Hooker that has some surprising facts and insights about someone who devoted…

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Washington’s Spies and the link to the “Spirit of 1776” wagon

VIDEO: TURN: Washington’s Spies shows Long Island in 1777 and Suffrage Wagon Cafe program shows what happened 100+ years later on Vimeo. “TURN: Washington’s Spies” Has “Spirit of 1776” Suffrage Wagon Wrinkle by Marguerite Kearns Activist Rosalie Jones was a loose cannon on Long Island back in 1913. She was controversial in public and in her own family….

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Season 2 of “TURN: Washington’s Spies” has “Spirit of 1776” wrinkle!

ALERT: APRIL 8, 2015. A SPECIAL PROGRAM OF SUFFRAGE WAGON CAFE: SECOND SEASON OF “TURN: WASHINGTON’S SPIES” LURES STORIES OF TORIES OUT OF THE CLOSET The A&E television series, “TURN: Washington’s Spies,” opens its second season on April 13, 2015. The series in its first season introduced an awareness of the nation’s first spy ring to a…

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Dr. Helen Pankhurst message to American women on Day #4 of Suffrage Wagon Cafe opening festival!

Hi, I’m Marguerite Kearns on our fourth and final day of the opening festivities for Suffrage Wagon Cafe. Today we’re delighted to showcase the message to American women voters from U.K. women’s rights activist Dr. Helen Pankhurst. The casting of Meryl Streep to play English suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst in the “Suffragette” film has brought…

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Day #3 of four-day festival at the Suffrage Wagon Cafe: The anti-suffrage movement

Marguerite Kearns, host of Suffrage Wagon Cafe, is back again on the third day of our four-day festival. This special program highlights the anti-suffrage movement. The suffrage movement is considered to have taken from 1848 to 1920, quite a struggle. And we can appreciate the accomplishment when examining what the women’s suffrage activists were up against. “In…

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Preview of Day #3 of Suffrage Wagon Cafe four-day festival!

VIDEO: The Anti-Suffrage Movement: Suffrage Wagon Cafe features a video and a book about those who didn’t want women to vote on Vimeo. Marguerite Kearns is your host at Suffrage Wagon Cafe. Follow Suffrage Wagon News Channel on Facebook and Twitter. Quarterly newsletters just by signing up. Suffrage Wagon News Channel has video platforms on Vimeo and YouTube….

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