Features suffrage wagon at the Long Island Museum
The Heritage Museum of Orange County (California) was honored to receive a first-place award from New Mexico Press Women at their annual conference and awards ceremony held at Ghost Ranch near Santa Fe, NM. The NMPW, the largest of New Mexico’s media organizations, is also the largest state chapter in the national…
Continue ReadingBooks from Suffrage Wagon Book Shelf on Vimeo. Women Will Vote: Winning Suffrage in New York State, available in September 2017, celebrates the 2017 centenary of women’s right to full suffrage in New York State. Authors Susan Goodier and Karen Pastorello highlight the activism of rural, urban, African American, Jewish, immigrant, and European American women, as well…
Continue ReadingHAPPY AUGUST 26th from Suffrage Wagon Cafe. Edna Buckman Kearns reflects on her past & the “Spirit of 1776” wagon! on Vimeo. Edna Buckman Kearns was a grassroots suffrage organizer in New York City and Long Island, a Quaker writer and speaker best known for her “Spirit of 1776” suffrage campaign wagon, a symbol of…
Continue ReadingIt’s August and fresh corn is coming in from the fields. Don’t boil it or keep it in the fridge until it’s hard and stale. Rush immediately to the best source of fresh corn and cook it ASAP. Chef Cutting shares his secrets as well as a delicious way to roast corn with the husks…
Continue Reading“Spirit of 1776” women’s suffrage wagon on exhibit in 2017! on Vimeo. The National Women’s History Project has published a special issue of the Gazette—”How Women Won the Vote.” The publication is available for events and observances in time for August 26th, Women’s Equality Day. A single copy is free. Bulk orders are $10 for 25…
Continue ReadingEdna Kearns and attention for her women’s suffrage work! on Vimeo. Recognition comes from many directions. Here’s a link (below) remembering suffrage activist Inez Milholland on “Miriam’s Well,” a blog by well-known poet and writer Miriam Sagan. Forward Into Light! Remembering Suffrage and Inez Milholland Marguerite Kearns is host at the Suffrage Wagon Cafe. Visit our Vimeo…
Continue ReadingInez Milholland French Onion Soup at Suffrage Wagon Cooking School on Vimeo. It can get cold in upstate New York where Inez Milholland grew in Essex County. Inez Milholland is America’s suffrage martyr and November 25, 2016 was the 100th anniversary of her death. We’re preparing the Inez Milholland French Onion Soup at Suffrage Wagon Cooking…
Continue ReadingWhite House Picketing & Hot Tea on Vimeo. American women picketed White House 101 years ago in support of voting rights! on Vimeo. News from the women’s suffrage movement. On the home front—this article appeared in the Long Island press in March 1917: Rockville Centre, L.I.—In the mind of the pretty little Miss Serena B. Kearns,…
Continue ReadingNews Notes for Women’s Suffrage Centennial events & celebrations! on Vimeo. Thinking about a special event for your friends, organization or club? Go straight to the source: Susan B. Anthony’s arrest in 1872 and her trial for voting. The trial is a hit with audiences if you’re looking for an event honoring Susan. The internet is…
Continue ReadingSix weeks ago the Adirondack History Museum opened its women’s suffrage exhibit. On July 7, 2016, US Senator Kirstin Gillibrand visited the exhibit that will be open until mid October 2017 and continue during 2018 with new material. The exhibit was made possible with funding from Humanities New York, and assistance from the New York Museum, New…
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