Who in 1913 linked tea parties with politics? Suffrage activist Alice Paul!

When my grandfather fell in love with Edna, he was shocked that she found anything interesting about  him. This is one of the many stories about Edna and Wilmer Kearns before they made activism a family affair. When the world agonized about international tensions, Alice Paul and her organization held tea parties at their Washington…

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My Aunt Serena Kearns’s fairy tale of suffrage or “women voting”

My Aunt Serena was known as Nassau County’s “youngest suffragist.” If there was a poster child for woman’s suffrage, it was little Serena Kearns. Her image was preserved when sitting in her mother Edna’s suffrage campaign wagon with the large bow in her hair. She accompanied her mother in New York City parades and on…

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Putting the August 26 US women’s gains into perspective…

There’s a terrific article about women journalists in Substack…a commentary on exactly how far women have come in the journalism profession: https://substack.com/notes/post/p-121253833 It is a terrific way to remember what different folks have asked me over the years. .I started working for a newspaper in 1972. It was a liberating era in the profession when…

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