Features suffrage wagon at the Long Island Museum
Our first year at Suffrage Wagon Cooking School is coming to an end. This is the last day for visiting the farmers’ market where, over time, the refrigerator’s produce bin has been crammed with food fresh from the fields. We love to cook with fresh local ingredients! Our Irish wood-burning cook stove has been a…
Continue ReadingEpisode #5. Bess and Edna argue about marriage and other things on Vimeo. Bess and Edna may have been the best of friends, but often they didn’t agree. Edna read Mary Wollstonecraft’s classic work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman because Bess insisted. And Edna agreed that when women were treated like second-class citizens, they…
Continue ReadingEpisode #4: How Bess got in trouble for reading Mary Wollstonecraft! on Vimeo. The problems for Bess started when her parents discovered a forbidden book under her bedroom mattress. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft (1792) started Bess on the path of finding other books that presented the idea…
Continue ReadingBirthday party in 2015 featuring Waterford Stanley wood-burning cook stove! on Vimeo. Suffrage Wagon Cooking School is celebrating its first birthday this summer. We started the cooking school with corn last year. Why? Because of the corn Edna Kearns canned for demonstration purposes that got her out in the community to reach…
Continue ReadingWomen’s suffrage news notes wrap up on Vimeo. NEWS NOTES: WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT EVENTS AND PROGRAMS: If you know a woman — current or historic– whose life demonstrates the 2016 theme, “Working to Make a More Perfect Union: Honoring Women in Public Service and Government,” visit the National Women’s History Project for a nomination application…
Continue Reading“Jailed for Freedom” by Doris Stevens is featured book on Suffrage Bookshelf on Vimeo. You can listen to the “Jailed for Freedom” book read free on Librivox. by Marguerite Kearns Have you heard the perspective referred to above that has been getting spread around lately? It compares the English and American suffrage movements and concludes that the English…
Continue ReadingSuffrage Wagon Cooking School clears the decks to make great cup of coffee on Vimeo. Suffrage Wagon Cooking School celebrates its first birthday this year. We’ll be visiting farmers’ markets this summer and blazing new trails, that is, if you come along with us. Over the past year, our in-house chef has featured how to…
Continue ReadingHow do suffrage stories speak to us today? They tell us that there’s a long history of people who reached toward change and had no idea in the moment of the impact and outcome of what they were doing. What’s the message for today? Think outside the box. Even if you’re convinced your cause is…
Continue ReadingSPECIAL VIDEO: Marguerite Kearns’ welcome message for Suffrage Wagon Cafe’s opening, the go-to place for women’s suffrage programs on Vimeo. Suffrage Wagon Cafe is open. Welcome! This video highlights a special greeting from me, your host Marguerite Kearns. It’s important to note how Americans are making a connection today between their family histories and the…
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…
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