GREAT NEWS: Extension of “Spirit of 1776” wagon exhibition!
The exhibition of the “Spirit of 1776” suffrage wagon has been extended for several weeks past the closing of the Votes for Women exhibition on May 13, 2018.
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VIDEOS: Choose to vote & “Spirit of 1776” wagon history!
VIDEOS: The first journey of the “Spirit of 1776” wagon. And the importance of choosing and using the vote that took generations to win. It’s one thing to speak generally about the suffrage movement and yet another thing to find out all of the hard work it involved. This web site celebrates the type of…
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Suffrage Wagon Cafe—Special Program honoring Edna B. Kearns, suffrage activist
A Suffrage Wagon Cafe special program to honor Edna Kearns, New York State suffrage activist.
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U.S. Rep Louise Slaughter carried on important work for women!
Thank you, Louise Slaughter (1929-2018) for your work benefitting American women! from Marguerite Kearns on Vimeo.U.S. Representative Louise Slaughter died during March, Women’s History Month, in 2018. After serving four years in the New York State Assembly, her district’s voters sent her to the U.S. House of Representatives from New York’s 30th Congressional district. She…
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Votes for Women exhibition ends today!
Overview of the “Spirit of 1776” suffrage wagon on exhibit in NYS on Vimeo. This is the last day for the votes for women exhibit at the New York State Museum in Albany, New York. The video highlights the “Spirit of 1776” suffrage wagon used by Edna Kearns that was a symbol of the suffrage movement….
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Publicity about “Spirit of 1776” votes for women wagon featured in historic marker in Huntington, NY
An article in “Huntington Now,” an online publication featuring the April 24, 2018 dedication ceremony of the historic marker funded by the Pomeroy Foundation. The marker featured the “Spirit of 1776” suffrage wagon used by Edna Kearns and others, and it is located in the business district of the Huntington, New York community. See link. …
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A gift for Mother’s Day—in memory of Matilda Joslyn Gage!
BRAVO! Here at Suffrage Wagon News Channel we’ve been advocating for years that tea become a theme of our celebrations.
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Suffragist Irene Davison & the “Spirit of 1776” Wagon
When Edna Kearns left Manhattan in 1913 for a grassroots organizing campaign to Long Island, Irene Davison rode in the “Spirit of 1776” wagon with her and little Serena Kearns. The “Spirit of 1776” is in the collection of the New York State Museum in Albany, New York. Irene Corwin Davison is to the far right…
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Growing up as a women’s suffrage descendant: from Marguerite Kearns
by Marguerite Kearns When I was young, my mother told me that my grandmother Edna Buckman Kearns did important work campaigning for Votes for Women. Edna died a long time before I was born, so I could only imagine what those days before the vote had been like. I thought about Edna and dreamed about…
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