Features suffrage wagon at the Long Island Museum
I suspect that Grandmother Edna Kearns is behind some of our family activity these days. Though I never knew my grandmother because she died in 1934, she influenced my life profoundly. And it’s not just me. Edna has another granddaughter, Winifred Culp, who’s a mover and shaker, and the spirit is spreading. See Safe Fabric…
Continue ReadingThe report of the 2013 blogging tour of the “Cradle” of the women’s rights movement in the United States continues with a two-part article by Olivia Twine and Marguerite Kearns in New York History. Part I: “The politics of Harriet Tubman and Barack Obama.” #1. #2. Part II: “Harriet Tubman and the Projected National Park.” #1….
Continue ReadingThe Brits are serious about their suffrage history and a suff sit-com is big time on the telly. Plus there are plans in the works for a major motion picture about the movement! Suffrage news from the UK: UK media features a perfectly strange and hilarious story about an English suffragette hiding in theatre in order…
Continue ReadingBy Marguerite Kearns and Olivia Twine It’s late afternoon in Johnstown, NY, magic hour, right before sunset when filmmakers capture the best lighting. Nancy Brown, a fifth grade teacher, is waiting to take us to the local historical society and out to dinner with three other board members of the Elizabeth Cady Stanton Hometown Association….
Continue ReadingYoung people touch the welts on the back of the bronze statue of Sojourner Truth, the abolitionist and suffrage activist, whose statue as a slave child was unveiled in Ulster County in the Hudson Valley on the first day of the blogging tour of the “Cradle” of the women’s rights movement of the United States. Read article…
Continue ReadingI’ve been on retreat at Pendle Hill this week (a Quaker retreat center) and then in the coming week I’m off on a tour of the cradle of the women’s rights movement in the United States with Olivia Twine. Of course, you can come along. Sign up at RockTheCradle.com, and that’s just the beginning. There’s…
Continue ReadingAnd you thought the “Spirit of 1776” suffrage campaign wagon was safely tucked away in a warehouse of the New York State Museum near Albany, NY. Wrong! The security team at the museum warehouse will note the wagon is in its usual place. However, the wagon’s 1776 spirit is heading out in late September for…
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 ReadingSign up for a free tour of the cradle of the women’s rights movement in the US Late September is a great time to take a trip when the leaves are turning and soon to be at their peak. We want you to join us on a free tour of the “cradle” of the women’s…
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…
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