"Spirit of 1776" campaign suffrage wagon

Descendants and volunteers. They are the backbone of the upcoming 2020 centennial of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution.

Mary Gardiner Jones was the niece of Rosalie Jones of Long Island. Her obituary highlights the next generation of women’s rights activists after 1920.

The City of Long Beach, New York will be dedicating a historic marker in June. This is a major commemorative event.

Personal reflections by Marguerite about the long journey of researching and publishing about the “Spirit of 1776” wagon that has been exhibited by the NYS Museum in Albany, NY.

A quick sketch as to why the “Spirit of 1776” suffrage wagon is an important artifact of the first wave of the women’s rights movement in the U.S.

Family naming patterns, facts, and local culture play a big part when working on a memoir and family history. Find out some examples.

Edna Buckman Kearns started out with the intention of studying art, but the uphill path associated with an art career turned her sights toward the first wave of the women’s rights movement.

The Buckman Family Reunion was one attempt to preserve family history and keep the descendants of the original Buckman settlers in the larger view.

Patriotism as protest was the justification used in 1913 when Edna Kearns and others took to the road for organizing for votes for women.

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