Features suffrage wagon at the Long Island Museum
“Ranting” is easy. It’s something that brings out the character of you, your characters, and much more. It’s also liberating.
Continue ReadingAlice Paul is finally getting the recognition she deserves. Yet, during her lifetime she wasn’t interested in glory. She kept her eye on the prize: women’s rights and the vote. Keep in mind that author Mary Walton never heard of Alice Paul before a newspaper editor brought Paul to her attention. In recent years, Walton…
Continue ReadingFebruary is a terrific month of the Lunar New Year, of building on the past, affirming our sisters and brothers and ancestors. The top image is a front cover of a publication produced by the Women’s History Alliance in 2021. The Chinese New Year has been celebrated for ages. So has Valentine’s Day when the…
Continue ReadingSuffrage Wagon News Channel has been publishing since 2009. It is a document of personal and historical development of one person and many others toward a goal of including women’s history as part of American history. Unless we can move from a top-down social and economic system to a horizontal social and economic system, we…
Continue ReadingCOLUMN FROM MARGUERITE KEARNS I started with evaluating my emphasis on my feet. They are neglected in general, says my exercise teacher. And reluctantly I admitted that the category of my mind and that of spirit are given more emphasis than my body. Yikes. This is something I have to correct. That’s why I registered…
Continue ReadingHot Chinese Tea Month is part of the February 2024 celebration dinner for the 2024 Lunar New Year. And we rely each year on Suffrage Wagon Cooking School. Happy Chinese New Year on Vimeo. Published by Suffrage Wagon Cooking School. This year on February 10, 2024, we’ll have a pot of tumeric and ginger tea…
Continue Reading Happy Holidays on Vimeo. We did it. I can remember when I wondered if I’d have enough to talk about for long. But here we are, struggling into another year…2024. And there is no struggle involved. Here’s to another year on the front lines! Love it. Suffrage Wagon News Channel has been publishing since 2009.
Continue ReadingThis 2013 book is a classic—Women’s Suffrage Memorabilia: An Illustrated Historical Study. If there is anything worth having in your collection, this is it. By Kenneth Florey, it is the most up to date collection of what is “out there.” There is more, and when you believe nothing more can be said, Florey and his…
Continue ReadingThere’s considerable documentation about the role that gatherings over afternoon tea were essential for the suffrage activists in terms of providing an opportunity to relax as well as plan “Votes for Women” activism. Alice Paul’s dream of a tea house for activists, reporters and sympathetic public officials came true with the establishment of “The Grated…
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