Features suffrage wagon at the Long Island Museum
Suffrage film buffs in the UK are busy preparing to go into production for a suffrage movement major motion picture, “Suffragette,” in February. And the UK suff sit-com “Up the Women” has been pleasing audiences over the past year. But what about your local community, your friends and associates who are itching to get started…
Continue ReadingKathleen Kelly, long-time friend of Suffrage Wagon, takes Joan of Arc on the road on her birthday with a special feature in “New York History.” See the special article for Joan’s birthday that spreads the word about the U.S. having its own Joan of Arc. VIDEOS: A clip from “Iron Jawed Angels,” that shows Inez…
Continue Readingby Kenneth Florey That there was more than a casual connection between tea and suffrage activism is undeniable. Suffragists organized tea parties to promote their cause and to raise money, as evidenced by many of the state reports that appear in Volume VI of The History of Woman Suffrage, a work that was originally conceived…
Continue ReadingDuring “Hot Tea Month” in January, you can watch videos about how the suffrage movement and tea were related. And while you’re at it, make a pot of hot tea, put up your feet and relax: Find out about Alice Paul’s teahouse in Washington, DC and how it became a refuge for women who picketed…
Continue ReadingThe Committee on House Administration in the U.S. Congress held a hearing on December 11, 2013 to hear testimony about establishing a commission to study the creation of a national women’s museum in the nation’s Capitol. Online streaming brought the session to a broad audience across the country. The Washington Post covered the hearing and…
Continue ReadingNate Levin is a real suffrage buff, and he found the article about the “Spirit of 1776” wagon and the Huntington, NY confrontation with Mrs. Jones described in the recent New York Archives article as “fascinating.” Why? Because Rosalie Jones, a prominent NYS suffrage activist, was from a divided family where her mother and sister…
Continue ReadingI did some baking recently and then put my feet up to watch “It’s a Wonderful Life” that many believe was set in Seneca Falls, NY. #1. #2. The resulting article was published this week in “New York History.” It highlights the town and its cottage industry, including the Frank Capra film and women’s rights…
Continue ReadingThis is, after all, a news channel. And that means I follow what’s happening in the larger world of issues, events, centennials, books and perspectives about women’s suffrage, as well as the accomplishments of the suffrage movement and how we build on that base today. Of course, my passion is inherited from my suffragist activist…
Continue ReadingEvery year in early December there’s another birthday for Suffrage Wagon News Channel. Now it’s number four! We’ll be celebrating 350 posts this month, and that’s quite an accomplishment. Back in the early days it wasn’t clear just how long I could keep up with blogging on a subject as focused as my suffragist grandmother…
Continue ReadingYou can read all about the “Spirit of 1776” suffrage wagon’s confrontation and threats in an article from the fall issue of “New York Archives” that’s still on the stands. The trip from New York City to Long Island for a month of campaigning in 1913 had a high point when the wagon arrived in…
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