Features suffrage wagon at the Long Island Museum
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…
Continue ReadingALERT: 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…
Continue ReadingMarguerite 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…
Continue ReadingVIDEO: News Notes for Women’s History Month: From Suffrage Wagon News Channel on Vimeo. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT in the Winter/Spring issue of the quarterly newsletter. Have you heard about the exhibition of the “Spirit of 1776” suffrage wagon in the upcoming New York State suffrage centennial celebration in 2017? The Alice Paul Institute has celebrated its 30th…
Continue ReadingVIDEO: “Marguerite’s Musings” is a regular column about women’s history! on Vimeo. by Marguerite Kearns The United States is racing to catch up with the United Kingdom that has been far ahead in terms of bringing awareness of the historic women’s suffrage movement to public attention in recent years. Keep in mind that American audiences haven’t…
Continue ReadingThe New York State Museum has announced its 2017 exhibit for the state’s suffrage centennial. New York City has staff working on planning for the state’s 2017 suffrage centennial. This is the first of many announced events. Follow Suffrage Wagon News Channel on Facebook and Twitter. Quarterly newsletters just by signing up. Suffrage Wagon…
Continue ReadingVIDEO: Celebrate Pi Day with American apple pie for women voters! on Vimeo. Here at Suffrage Wagon Cooking School we’ve been making good old American apple pie for women voters. And everyone else too. But it’s not only Pi Day in March, but also Women’s History Month. Pi Day has been observed in many ways, including making, eating…
Continue ReadingVIDEO: “Your Voice, Your Vote” by Martha Burk, featured on Suffrage Wagon Bookshelf on Vimeo. “Your Voice, Your Vote” by Martha Burk is a must-have reference for the modern voter. Any book that features the 1848 Seneca Falls women’s rights convention in the first chapter has my attention from the start. Burk makes it clear that…
Continue ReadingVIDEO: Meet me at the Suffrage Wagon Cafe for the Women’s History Month opening! on Vimeo. The Suffrage Wagon Cafe is partnering with Suffrage Wagon Cooking School. Chef Cutting, our chef for the first series of cooking school recipes, gives us the Big Picture. VIDEO: Suffrage Wagon Cafe & Suffrage Wagon Cooking School: Important announcement! on Vimeo. NEWS…
Continue ReadingVIDEO: Turning Point Suffragist Memorial took a giant leap is a Vimeo video. The Turning Point video is also on YouTube. Did you ever stop to think where you and the country would be today without the women from around the nation who were willing to endure humiliation, beatings, incarceration, force feeding and inhumane prison conditions to obtain the vote for…
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