Features suffrage wagon at the Long Island Museum
Yeah for suffrage history and the way in which it is penetrating the mass culture. Just when I’m thinking that it can’t be possible to marginalize suffrage history any more, I’m surprised. The word is getting out. Like, there’s a suffrage focus on the History Channel during the month of March, and how about a…
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 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 ReadingThe continuing story of the suffragists’ protest at the nation’s 1876 celebration of the Declaration of Independence, held in Philadelphia. This year is the 165th anniversary of the Seneca Falls convention. Let’s celebrate! by Elizabeth Cady Stanton Among the most enjoyable experiences at our headquarters were the frequent visits of our beloved Lucretia Mott, who…
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 ReadingOne hundred years ago English suffragette Emily Davison stepped in front of the king’s horse at the Derby to draw attention to the long and difficult campaign to win the vote. Emily Davison’s death remains newsworthy and controversial today. Because of the upcoming centennial of Davison’s death in June 2013, a great deal is appearing…
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 ReadingOne hundred years ago English suffragette Emily Davison stepped in front of the king’s horse at the Derby to draw attention to the long and difficult campaign to win the vote. Emily Davison’s death remains newsworthy and controversial today. Because of the upcoming centennial of Davison’s death in June 2013, a great deal is appearing…
Continue ReadingYou’d think the article wasn’t important: the news that greenhouse gas has reached a high never before encountered by humans! It appeared yesterday on page 5 in my local paper. Two million years ago was the last time greenhouse gas levels were this high. COMING SOON: Suffrage Wagon columnist Tara Bloyd launches a letter writing…
Continue Readingby Kenneth Florey Suffragists in America also promoted automobile tours as a way of advertising “Votes for Women.” The most famous trip was that of Alice Snitzer Burke and Nell Richardson in 1916. The pair left New York on April 6, accompanied by their new kitten called “Mascot,” to make a circuit of the United…
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