Features suffrage wagon at the Long Island Museum
Where was Edna Kearns 100 years ago? In Nashville, Tennessee attending a national convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. This leads to a story I heard when growing up when hearing about my grandmother Edna Kearns. Featured here is the letter Edna received informing her that she had credentials to attend as as…
Continue ReadingMarguerite’s Musings: Just found a letter from a Massachusetts friend of my grandmother Edna Kearns. Most likely it was written in 1917 because the friend talks about the arrests at the White House and how in a conversation with Alice Paul, Edna’s name came up and Alice Paul called her “a peach.” Letters like this…
Continue Readingby Marguerite Kearns Day #10 and Podcast #5. More alarming reports reached the outside from Lucy Burns about the “Night of Terror,” –messages written on small scraps of paper. Follow the continuing story on Podcast #5 of the audio series. Nothing pretty. First-person accounts. Being held down and force fed. Not easy to know about, but essential…
Continue Readingby Marguerite Kearns Day #7. Audio Podcast #2 gets us close to the women of the Occoquan Workhouse We get to know them as people. The “Night of Terror” resulted from an official government policy to push the activists from the National Woman’s Party into a corner so they’d back down and stop the picketing the White…
Continue Readingby Marguerite Kearns It’s that time of the year. Election Day tomorrow. Conversation is something we engage in every day, and too often I don’t take advantage of conversation opportunities to tell people what’s on my mind. Like this past Sunday with me in my pajamas as I opened the door to two women Jehovah’s…
Continue Readingby Marguerite Kearns When I was young, I was confused often when hearing jokes about women drivers. I wasn’t exactly sure why so much attention was showered on women who drove, though subconsciously it must have made an impact because I didn’t learn to drive myself until my early 20s. Perhaps it had to do with a…
Continue Readingby Marguerite Kearns Toshi Seeger, AKA Pete Seeger’s wife and working partner, is no longer with us, but her memory lives. Last year I sent a card to the Seeger family to say that I had a tree planted in El Salvador in Toshi’s memory. For the ten years I worked at Hudson River Sloop Clearwater in…
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