Features suffrage wagon at the New York State Museum —spring-fall 2024, Permanent Exhibition
An old friend, Chef Cutting, dropped by the Suffrage Wagon Cooking School to show us how to prepare fresh English scones. Check in with the link. He’s not only making them for Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony, but also as a way to remember Elizabeth Cady Stanton. November 12th is Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s birthday,…
Continue ReadingThe Brits are serious about their suffrage history and a suff sit-com is big time on the telly. Plus there are plans in the works for a major motion picture about the movement! Suffrage news from the UK: UK media features a perfectly strange and hilarious story about an English suffragette hiding in theatre in order…
Continue Readingby Marguerite Kearns and Olivia Twine (as published in New York History) The federal government shutdown in Washington, DC may have dimmed the lights at the Elizabeth Cady Stanton house in Seneca Falls, NY, at the visitors’ center, Wesleyan Chapel, and other park site locations. But it didn’t deter our determination to continue on the…
Continue ReadingBOOKS TO BE AWARE OF: Book by Bonnie Smith about how women’s history relates to young girls today. #1. Book by Susan Goodier about New York State and the campaign to defeat Votes for Women. #1. Publication on the Long Island suffrage movement by Antonia Petrash. #1. As for the plot to kill Susan B….
Continue ReadingBy Marguerite Kearns and Olivia Twine It’s late afternoon in Johnstown, NY, magic hour, right before sunset when filmmakers capture the best lighting. Nancy Brown, a fifth grade teacher, is waiting to take us to the local historical society and out to dinner with three other board members of the Elizabeth Cady Stanton Hometown Association….
Continue ReadingCitizens and businesses in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York State are proud of its cultural riches and a recent news article says this is something to crow about. Olivia Twine and I barely scratched the surface on our 2013 blogging tour of what’s available. We could have been on the road for…
Continue ReadingHome from the blogging tour of the “Cradle” of the women’s rights movement in the US in upstate New York! What an eye opener! It’s one thing to talk about the “Cradle” of the movement in the US, and yet another thing to see it for myself. I’m exhausted. I’m happy. I have enough material…
Continue ReadingJUST LANDING AFTER THE CRADLE BLOGGING TOUR: Yes, I’m behind in the Cradle Blogging Tour postings. Yes, I’ve just gotten home and will be catching up soon. Meanwhile, here are some highlights of past postings, and the regular posting schedule will resume soon. Traveling on the road with Edna: Family stories about Grandmother Edna and…
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