Features suffrage wagon at the Long Island Museum
NEWS FROM SUFFRAGE WAGON NEWS CHANNEL: Interest is increasing from around the nation by women planning to run for the U.S. House of Representatives. Many of these candidates are focusing on health care, education, early childhood development, family leave, and workplace equality. This year is the 170th anniversary of the 1848 women’s rights convention held…
Continue Reading This article from a suffrage newsletter highlights grassroots organizing on Long Island during 1912. From the archive of Edna Buckman Kearns,this document shows Edna on the platform speaking for over an hour, along with selling memorabilia for fundraising. It’s one of many examples of the extensive campaigning during 1912 on Long Island (New York)….
Continue ReadingAn article in “Huntington Now,” an online publication featuring the April 24, 2018 dedication ceremony of the historic marker funded by the Pomeroy Foundation. The marker featured the “Spirit of 1776” suffrage wagon used by Edna Kearns and others, and it is located in the business district of the Huntington, New York community. See link. …
Continue Readingby Marguerite Kearns When I was young, my mother told me that my grandmother Edna Buckman Kearns did important work campaigning for Votes for Women. Edna died a long time before I was born, so I could only imagine what those days before the vote had been like. I thought about Edna and dreamed about…
Continue ReadingThe Suffrage Wagon Cafe for special programs, music, & film on Vimeo. Suffrage Wagon Cafe has been undergoing renovations which means we are now resuming our special programs. This program highlights the unveiling of the heritage road marker in Huntington, NY during April 2018 and the closing of the special suffrage centennial exhibition from November 2017…
Continue ReadingVIDEO SPECIAL: Reporter Samantha Parker reminds us to see the “Spirit of 1776” suffrage wagon used by Edna Kearns before the “Votes for Women” exhibit at the New York State Museum closes on May 13, 2018. The suffrage wagon has been exhibited at the museum in 2010, 2012, and from 2017 to 2018. It was on…
Continue ReadingThe roadside marker in Huntington, NY, officially dedicated on Tuesday, April 24, 2018, is now part of the downtown business area near Wall and Main Streets. The marker is part of a program of the William G. Pomeroy Foundation to erect historic road markers throughout New York State.
Continue Reading Long Island women’s suffrage activists featured in an exhibit! on Vimeo. Edna Kearns is featured in an exhibit of Long Island suffrage activists that continues at the Suffolk County Historical Society, 300 West Main Street, Riverhead, NY. A petition gathered during 2017, NY’s suffrage centennial, has been sent to officials in Albany, NY supporting…
Continue ReadingThe Votes for Women exhibit at the New York State Museum highlights the “Spirit of 1776” wagon used by Edna Kearns in New York City and Long Island.
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