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Suffrage Movement News Notes from Suffrage Wagon on Vimeo. April’s suffrage movement news notes are highlighted in this video that also promotes the next program at Suffrage Wagon Cafe: May 8, 2015. An interview and special feature with Eighty Bug, award-winning performer and songwriter who just won an award for “Spirit of 1776: A Suffragette…
Continue ReadingVideo announcement. We’ll be featuring the award-winning performer and songwriter Eighty Bug at the next program of Suffrage Wagon Cafe on May 8, 2015. What award? It’s for the music video, “Spirit of 1776: A New Suffragette Anthem.” And Eighty assembled quite a production team, plus an enormous boost from the Heritage Museum of Orange…
Continue ReadingSuffrage Wagon Cafe: A great place for women’s suffrage programs, music, & film on Vimeo. Watch the video about Suffrage Wagon Cafe that will be featuring more about the awards for Suffrage Wagon News Channel. Suffrage Wagon News Channel, the recipient of an award from New Mexico Press Women, was honored at the organization’s annual…
Continue ReadingNever heard of Isabella Beecher Hooker? Don’t worry. Her story has just hit the mainstream with a new book by Susan Campbell. And Olivia Twine takes us back to the past for an overview. SuffrageCentennials.com recommends places to go during upcoming suffrage centennial events and celebrations. There’s the 2017 suffrage centennial observance in New York…
Continue ReadingVIDEO: Isabella Beecher Hooker book by Susan Campbell featured on Suffrage Wagon Bookshelf on Vimeo. Suffrage Wagon Bookshelf is featuring Tempest-Tossed, The Spirit of Isabella Beecher Hooker (Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT, 2014). COMING SOON: Olivia Twine’s feature article on Susan Campbell’s book about Isabella Beecher Hooker that has some surprising facts and insights about someone who devoted…
Continue ReadingVIDEO: Marguerite Kearns features women’s suffrage news and features on voting rights blog on Vimeo. For all those who avoid reading, this video is a quick overview of the Votes for Women news notes of the past few weeks on Suffrage Wagon News Channel. You’ll get the picture in only a few minutes and still have…
Continue ReadingVIDEO: TURN: Washington’s Spies shows Long Island in 1777 and Suffrage Wagon Cafe program shows what happened 100+ years later on Vimeo. “TURN: Washington’s Spies” Has “Spirit of 1776” Suffrage Wagon Wrinkle by Marguerite Kearns Activist Rosalie Jones was a loose cannon on Long Island back in 1913. She was controversial in public and in her own family….
Continue ReadingALERT: APRIL 8, 2015. A SPECIAL PROGRAM OF SUFFRAGE WAGON CAFE: SECOND SEASON OF “TURN: WASHINGTON’S SPIES” LURES STORIES OF TORIES OUT OF THE CLOSET The A&E television series, “TURN: Washington’s Spies,” opens its second season on April 13, 2015. The series in its first season introduced an awareness of the nation’s first spy ring to a…
Continue ReadingHi, I’m Marguerite Kearns on our fourth and final day of the opening festivities for Suffrage Wagon Cafe. Today we’re delighted to showcase the message to American women voters from U.K. women’s rights activist Dr. Helen Pankhurst. The casting of Meryl Streep to play English suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst in the “Suffragette” film has brought…
Continue ReadingMarguerite Kearns, host of Suffrage Wagon Cafe, is back again on the third day of our four-day festival. This special program highlights the anti-suffrage movement. The suffrage movement is considered to have taken from 1848 to 1920, quite a struggle. And we can appreciate the accomplishment when examining what the women’s suffrage activists were up against. “In…
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