Features suffrage wagon at the Long Island Museum
This volunteer project focusing on suffrage and peace activist Edna Buckman Kearns is bigger than all of us. It has entered the mainstream and opened doors for many. Right now with the deemphasis on the past and the isolation of the present, it may not seem as if deep coverage of a relatively unknown activist…
Continue Reading“I wish I could say it has been a slam dunk process, but it hasn’t been,” says suffrage or “votes for women” advocate Marguerite Kearns. “When we started this project, voting was on the decline. Many people were burnt out, but we’ve witnessed a complete turnaround since then.” The goal of fair, reasonable, and easy…
Continue ReadingWe have relied on many many people who have contributed to the uphill task of taking the story of Edna Buckman Kearns to the broader public. This has included the contributions of numerous people, organizations, and the luck of presence and courage. We have attempted to break the rules of engagement in many ways and…
Continue ReadingThe “Spirit of 1776” horse-drawn suffrage campaign wagon will be on exhibit at the “Voices and Votes” exhibit at the Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages in Stony Brook, New York, from February 25, 2025 to April 6, 2025. Stony Brook is located on Long Island, east of New York City. Suffrage…
Continue Readingby Marguerite Kearns Recently I wasn’t expecting the attitude from a friend who lectured me about how the past was “bad” and the present day was “good.” I was puzzled until I read on the internet that this is a contemporary movement to downplay differences and potential disasters. While I agree that the passage of…
Continue ReadingWhat was it like for the residents of Long Island (outside of New York City) when the Brits took over political control of New York City and Long Island following the Battle of Long Island in 1777? The colonial patriots and their general, George Washington, lost that battle, and the tax controversies of the English…
Continue ReadingErich Fromm’s book, Escape from Freedom, was published in 1941. He was born in 1900. This combination certainly qualifies as “the past.” Fromm is easy to ignore because freedom is a popular topic. Fromm believes that if Americans actually believed in freedom and held it to their chests as a valuable goal, they would most…
Continue Readingby Marguerite Kearns We don’t eliminate US history simply because it happened in the past. I was in an argument recently with someone over this exact question. The past is elusive. For many, the past may have occurred over a hundred years ago. Or the past could describe less than a minute ago. OTHER CONSIDERATIONS….
Continue Readingby Marguerite Kearns The women activists who put their lives, families, and reputations on the line so we could vote today didn’t speak with one voice. They debated and engaged in loud and chronic disagreements. There were hundreds of suffrage organizations. Yes, with many perspectives I didn’t agree with, then or now. But that doesn’t…
Continue ReadingWho could have predicted this? I couldn’t have. This is why Suffrage Wagon News Channel has another agenda—to keep the voting issue alive. Suffrage Wagon News Channel has been publishing since 2009.
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