Features suffrage wagon at the New York State Museum —spring-fall 2024, Permanent Exhibition
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…
Continue ReadingMy 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…
Continue ReadingThe DAR plaque installed at the New Mexico state capitol in June of 2023 was what remained of the many attempts by the DAR chapter in Santa Fe, NM to capture the spirit of the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment to the US Constitution in 2020. Because the COVID emergency resulted…
Continue ReadingEdna Buckman Kearns stood on the shoulders of those who came before her. She volunteered for the cause during her lifetime. And she passed a suffrage movement torch to my mother and me who have carried on Edna’s work. I’m passing a torch to others who are carrying on Edna’s work of gathering support for…
Continue ReadingSpecial events and fundraisers need a little planning and that’s why a special event right before the holidays sets a mood and a spirit that is more generous than during the rest of the year. Is there a way to combine fun and business? Raise a little money so that you can hire a speaker…
Continue ReadingThere’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…
Continue Readingby Marguerite Kearns Several days ago I sat through three hours of the film “Oppenheimer” in a movie theatre. I remembered my glasses, but not my hearing aids. So I sat through three hours of terrific images but little sound. Then the above article appeared in my mail. Half of the listening streaming public depends…
Continue Readingby Marguerite Kearns I’m standing on the shoulders of those who have come before me. I’ve been carrying on the work of the ancestors, and passing the torch to those continuing the work. That’s why the efforts of the ERA Coalition are so important. We joined. We’re allies. And part of our work is discovering…
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