Features suffrage wagon at the Long Island Museum
First, there’s the preparation for the celebration you’re going to have on or about August 26th, Women’s Equality Day. The National Women’s History Project has all sorts of cool things to buy to make things easy. Balloons, posters, buttons. Guests love take home items and prancing around wearing buttons. You add the invitations, the goodies,…
Continue ReadingA lot on our plate: The Brits are ahead of us with an announcement about a new feature film about the suffrage movement under production! #1. #2. Do you know about the Suffragette Cocktail? #1 #2. The “anti” suffrage forces are on the move –the same old thing and with the attitude of a former generation….
Continue ReadingChef Cutting is revealing his secrets at this first lesson of the Suffrage Wagon Cooking School with a step-by-step guide on how to roast corn now that corn’s in season. Let’s go for it. Video. This recipe is splendid, whether you’re cooking on a grill or in your oven, during the summer or year round….
Continue ReadingOne hundred years ago, the hardy band of suffrage activists were still busy traveling throughout Long Island. It’s difficult to know exactly how many people saw them off from the NYS Woman Suffrage Association at 108 Madison Avenue on July 1st, even though newspaper reports said the event stressed the capacity of the meeting room…
Continue ReadingOne hundred years ago, all through the month of July 1913, the “Spirit of 1776” suffrage wagon traveled for freedom throughout Long Island (NY). A quick overview of what happened during this suffrage centennial observance in 2013 can be seen through videos, special postings, and the story of the resolution that passed both houses of…
Continue ReadingThe continuing story of the suffragists’ demonstration at the nation’s centennial celebration in Philadelphia in early July 1876. by Elizabeth Cady Stanton . . . With this rebuff, Mrs. Mott and I decided that we would not accept the offered seats, but would be ready to open our own convention called for that day, at the First Unitarian…
Continue Readingby Tara Bloyd Seneca Falls Inheritance, by Miriam Grace Monfredo (Berkley Prime Crime; published 1994) For once I’m not reviewing a children’s book – what fun! This light mystery-with-a-side-of-history takes place in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848, at the start of the women’s rights movement in the United States. Glynis Tryon, the town librarian, is the…
Continue ReadingThe continuing story of the suffragists’ protest at the nation’s 1876 celebration of the Declaration of Independence, held in Philadelphia. This year is the 165th anniversary of the Seneca Falls convention. Let’s celebrate! by Elizabeth Cady Stanton Among the most enjoyable experiences at our headquarters were the frequent visits of our beloved Lucretia Mott, who…
Continue ReadingIn both the US and UK, there’s considerable activism by those who’ve had enough of the last hurrah devoted to keeping women in their place. This is what happens when social systems transition, such as what we’re witnessing now. Women can grin and bear it, or stand up to be counted. One example is the…
Continue ReadingPeople at the Center of Women’s Suffrage, by Deborah Kops, Blackbirch Press: 2004 by Tara Bloyd Rather than covering the suffrage movement as a whole, except for an overview at the beginning, this book gives short profiles of fifteen women important in the struggle. I appreciated that instead of starting with the Elizabeth Cady Stanton/Susan…
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