Features suffrage wagon at the Long Island Museum
If there’s a book that’s rocking the cradle of the women’s rights movement in NYS, it’s Long Island and the Woman Suffrage Movement by Antonia Petrash. The History Press recently published the work, and it adds volumes to what has been revealed about the island. Long Island historian Natalie Naylor has also covered considerable ground…
Continue ReadingThe fall is a terrific time for travel, and the blogging bus headed to the Cradle of the women’s rights movement in the US is ready to hit the road. Join us! Sign up for the free tour. Enjoy a road trip through upstate New York, the “Cradle.” While it’s still warm outside, squeeze in…
Continue ReadingIt’s August and there were too many news notes for our posting at the start of the month. So Wilmer Kearns is stepping up to the plate: We’ve been watching the progression of a great film from Holland, “Ahoy,” that features, among other courageous women, American suffragist Inez Milholland, the suffrage martyr who died for…
Continue ReadingVideo and audio about August 26th or Women’s Equality Day, available now. Plus an audio reading of the 1971 resolution that passed Congress. Video: “Rap and Roll the Suffrage Wagon” celebrates August 26th. Audio: Amelia Bowen reads the text of the Women’s Equality Day resolution that passed the US Congress in 1971. Audio: T. Fowler’s…
Continue ReadingThe continuing story of the suffragists’ demonstration at the nation’s centennial celebration in Philadelphia in early July 1876. This important part of American history and women’s history is being published in four parts. Find out how the 19th amendment came about. by Elizabeth Cady Stanton . . . With this rebuff, Mrs. Mott and I…
Continue ReadingFirst, 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 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, 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 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…
Continue ReadingSuffrage activists didn’t let the centennial of the Declaration of Independence pass in 1876 without a demonstration. In this chapter of her memoir, Elizabeth Cady Stanton explains the preparations associated with traveling to Philadelphia to make the point that the American Revolution remained unfinished as long as women were denied the ballot and basic civil…
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