Features suffrage wagon at the Long Island Museum
What a way to celebrate the New Year as I concentrate over the next few weeks and dive into grandmother Edna’s life and correspondence. I watched “Iron Jawed Angels” which focused on Alice Paul and others who worked their fingers to the bone for a national suffrage amendment. There were no films like this when…
Continue ReadingSuch as the article in The New York Times about Susan B. Anthony’s home. Let’s see how long it stays up for public view. And a very interesting clip about the women of the UK and their suffrage movement.
Continue ReadingThe intuitive feminine is building toward a tipping point, a state of affiars that builds a bridge from the present, into the past and future. This was the vision of Edna’s generation which is manifesting at the present time.
Continue ReadingThe New York City Edna moved to with her new husband, Wilmer R. Kearns, was bustling with activists and new ideas. The NYP is my least favorite newspaper, but a feature article highlighting this period of history lays it out in “Bohemian Rhapsody,” which mentions suffrage activism of the women of the period.
Continue ReadingYouTube features: “Women’s Suffrage 1776-1900,” “We Stand on the Shoulders of Giants,” “Susan B. Anthony.”
Continue ReadingAfter leaving New York State behind in 1920 when she moved back to her family home in Pennsylvania, Edna May Buckman will return to New York when her horse-drawn carriage used for the suffrage campaign goes on exhibit at the New York State Museum in Albany in 2010. A new wing of the museum is…
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