Features suffrage wagon at the Long Island Museum
The importance of visiting historic sites associated with the suffrage movement can be seen in Nate Levin’s response to visiting the Carrie Chapman Catt girlhood home in Charles City, Iowa. “I stepped out of my car and looked across the prairie, at the countryside–the same view, give or take 150 years, that Carrie Lane had…
Continue ReadingKathleen Kelly, long-time friend of Suffrage Wagon, takes Joan of Arc on the road on her birthday with a special feature in “New York History.” See the special article for Joan’s birthday that spreads the word about the U.S. having its own Joan of Arc. VIDEOS: A clip from “Iron Jawed Angels,” that shows Inez…
Continue Readingby Kenneth Florey That there was more than a casual connection between tea and suffrage activism is undeniable. Suffragists organized tea parties to promote their cause and to raise money, as evidenced by many of the state reports that appear in Volume VI of The History of Woman Suffrage, a work that was originally conceived…
Continue ReadingDuring “Hot Tea Month” in January, you can watch videos about how the suffrage movement and tea were related. And while you’re at it, make a pot of hot tea, put up your feet and relax: Find out about Alice Paul’s teahouse in Washington, DC and how it became a refuge for women who picketed…
Continue ReadingThe Winter 2013-14 Suffrage Wagon newsletter should be in your email box. If not, here it is. Terrific article about Susan B. Anthony’s organizing sleigh ride throughout New York State at Christmas in 1854. If you read no other article about Susan B. Anthony, this is the one. It shows how Susan took advantage of an…
Continue ReadingDear Santa, All I want for Christmas. . . We’ll see if Santa, Mrs. Claus and all the elves can pull off what appears to be a minor miracle in terms of putting a federal and state women’s trails in Santa’s sleigh on Christmas eve. There’s a video called “All I want for Christmas is…
Continue ReadingNate Levin is a real suffrage buff, and he found the article about the “Spirit of 1776” wagon and the Huntington, NY confrontation with Mrs. Jones described in the recent New York Archives article as “fascinating.” Why? Because Rosalie Jones, a prominent NYS suffrage activist, was from a divided family where her mother and sister…
Continue ReadingI did some baking recently and then put my feet up to watch “It’s a Wonderful Life” that many believe was set in Seneca Falls, NY. #1. #2. The resulting article was published this week in “New York History.” It highlights the town and its cottage industry, including the Frank Capra film and women’s rights…
Continue ReadingIt’s sufragist Edna Kearns‘ birthday on December 25th, as well as Seneca Falls convention heavyweight Martha Wright. Video to celebrate these December 25th birthdays. Edna Kearns (1882-1934) is cited as one of two suffragists of the month in December 2013 for the Long Island women’s suffrage site. #1. #2. Want to give a gift? Edna Kearns…
Continue ReadingThis is, after all, a news channel. And that means I follow what’s happening in the larger world of issues, events, centennials, books and perspectives about women’s suffrage, as well as the accomplishments of the suffrage movement and how we build on that base today. Of course, my passion is inherited from my suffragist activist…
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