Features suffrage wagon at the Long Island Museum
Video 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 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 Reading[one_half_last]The power of a cup of tea in the suffrage movement is spelled out in this two-part series by Ken Florey, the author of a book, soon to be released, on suffrage memorabilia. See: Part #1. Part #2. Alice Paul’s tea house, The Grated Door, also tied the tea room with organizing for the movement. For descriptions of…
Continue ReadingBig week in Albany, NY with legislative resolution highlighting “Spirit of 1776” suffrage wagon: Book about Long Island suffrage movement expected to be published in late June 2013. #1. #2. “Spirit of 1776” wagon cited on State Senator Little’s web page. #1. #2. Overview of the wagon’s travels in Albany, NY. #1. #2. News 10 in…
Continue ReadingThis coming week both houses of the New York State Legislature are expected to pass a special resolution honoring Grandmother Edna Kearns’ wagon and its centennial and designating July 1, 2013 as the “Spirit of 1776” Wagon Day. Members of the bipartisan New York State Legislative Women’s Caucus that sponsored the resolution about the wagon’s centennial…
Continue ReadingMcFarland Publishers has finished printing Women’s Suffrage Memorabilia–An Illustrated Historical Study by Kenneth Florey. Consult McFarland’s spring catalog for more information. The book is available at Amazon. The New York Times antiques column recently gave the book a favorable mention. If you’re a fan of Ken Florey’s articles on Suffrage Wagon News Channel about tea…
Continue ReadingIn the spring of 1914, suffrage leader Harriot Stanton Blatch continued experimenting with various forms of publicizing suffrage and purchased a used, horse-drawn van, with the intention of converting it into a roving shop. The van was moved from place to place every few days, and sold a variety of suffrage literature and memorabilia such…
Continue Readingby Marguerite Kearns I rarely thought of myself as a suffrage descendant when I was young. There were too many other ways of viewing myself, especially my social position and various roles in life. Late in life I’ve embraced the descendant label of a “suffragist’s granddaughter.” And I realize the extent to which I’ve been…
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