Features suffrage wagon at the Long Island Museum
Marguerite’s Musings: I never imagined what has actually happened. It seems that others speak of little more than “the sky is blue”or” it snowed or rained a lot today.” Little of substance passes for a real exchange.” Occasionally we are informed by other messages, such as “this social and political situation results in me…
Continue Readingby Marguerite Kearns I’m cleaning up in the space also known as my “home” in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I remember my first book on nutrition when we lived in West Hurley, New York —almost straight off the boat from Denver, Colorado, after we moved to the Hudson Valley. The Catskill Mountains were puny compared…
Continue ReadingIf you have liked the votes for women or suffrage videos so far, check out many more videos about this topic on Vimeo.com There, the news channel editor and writer Marguerite Kearns (or KearnsMarguerite) has posted the more than 300 videos she has made to publicize the suffrage wagon used by Edna Buckman Kearns donated…
Continue Readingby Marguerite Kearns This image is one of the road and street markers on Long Island in New York State funded by the Pomeroy Foundation (Long Beach, NY) honoring my grandmother, Edna Buckman Kearns, who lived in New York City and Rockville Centre, NY with her husband and later, first daughter Serena, my mother’s older…
Continue ReadingOne of the best decisions about storytelling in my life has been the low cost to free writing sessions of Imaginative Storm on Saturday mornings. Then Allegra Huston, with James Nave, combines song and dance with writing and expression that I would never accomplish otherwise. Allegra has had frequent postings of Imaginative Storm that I…
Continue ReadingAugust 26th is celebrated throughout the US. Our sister site, SuffrageCentennials.com is a member of the ERA Coalition. The year, 2023, was the 100th anniversary of US women working for an equal rights amendment to the US Constitution. Plenty of activity has been the goal of us working for equality. The roots of patriarchy are…
Continue Readingby Marguerite Kearns I’m taking stock of the disaster that’s developing with these family secrets. They go on and on, and I have the capacity to still say…I did the best I could and hope that the situation isn’t too bad. I find it hard to take when people speak from both sides of their…
Continue ReadingA MARTYR OF THE WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT—INEZ MILHOLLAND Today is Inez Milholland’s birthday. . . She worked with Edna Buckman Kearns in the movement to win the right to vote in NYS. Inez Milholland, the U.S. suffrage martyr! on Vimeo. In 2016 Marguerite Kearns and Bob Cooney spent a year commemorating online the death of…
Continue Reading“It has been since 2007 that I have also been writing. photographing, and editing for the Espanola Farmers Market,” says Marguerite Kearns who has also been blogging for Suffrage Wagon News Channel since 2009. Kearns will witness a change in market management during 2024. Check out another example of grassroots organizing by linking to: EspanolaFarmersMarket@blogspot.com…
Continue ReadingThis volunteer project focusing on suffrage and peace activist Edna Buckman Kearns is bigger than all of us. It has entered the mainstream and opened doors for many. Right now with the deemphasis on the past and the isolation of the present, it may not seem as if deep coverage of a relatively unknown activist…
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