Category Archives: Blog

Marguerite Kearns talks about her suffrage activist grandparents—Edna Kearns & Wilmer Kearns! on Vimeo.

Dear Friends,

I may be writing about the suffrage campaigning, but my new book has a special message for you. Are you collecting family stories, memorabilia, photos, and so on? Items like these are the most valuable gifts for future generations? And I include you when I suggest that my book has more interest than those interested in women’s issues.

SUNY Press (State of New York) is working hard to produce my book scheduled to be published in June 2021. I’ve discovered that the scheduling of events is the area where I’m to take full responsibility, according to one member of the production team.

Here’s where you come in. Do you know of an organization, program, educational program of other venue where my participation and presentation would be welcome? Contact me and I can follow through on your suggestion. I’m reachable at SUNYBookAuthor at gmail.com

Visit the web site: Unfinished-Revolution.com for details of the book, “An Unfinished Revolution.” This work is a model of something many people are doing as a gift to their own families. They’re archiving important events, photos, stories and more. My book is about how the early women’s rights movement impacted me, as well as four generations in my family. And it has broader implications about what you can do with your own family.

Get in touch. I’ll love to hear from you!

Hugs, Marguerite Kearns

SuffrageCentennials.com has been publishing since 2013. Our work continues.

Individual states celebrated their suffrage centennials first! on Vimeo.

SuffrageCentennials.com has followed the centennial trail from the local to the national level. We have been publishing since 2013.

by Marguerite Kearns

I’m still at the task of my passion——telling friends and others about the early women’s rights movement. It was uphill, decentralized, and promoted by volunteers. They did what they could within the circumstances of their own lives and the times. Some were just like us. Others reflected their own families, social and political agendas.

Now there are historic markers across the United States to point out the locations of where they lived and worked. Most were regular folks. The majority didn’t earn salaries and benefits. They represented a cross section of the nation. Today we build on their accomplishments, warts and blemishes.

Have you ever visited Seneca Falls, New York? You can sign up to hear about the special programs and ceremonies sponsored there.

We all have to start somewhere.

Suffrage Centennials has been publishing since 2013.

Contact the web site of the National Women’s History Alliance for more information.

Suffrage centennials didn’t come about by accident! on Vimeo.

March 8, 2021 is International Women’s Day. Are you raising your hand?

HISTORIC SUFFRAGE MARKER TO BE INSTALLED IN LONG BEACH, NY

A historic marker has been approved and will be part of the national Votes for Women Trail that has hundreds of historic markers now part of community history across the nation during 2020 and 2021. The historic marker funded by the Pomeroy Foundation commemorates the suffrage organizing work of Edna Buckman Kearns in Long Beach during 1913. It is planned for the Boardwalk at National Blvd.

Support An Unfinished Revolution, the book by Marguerite Kearns that goes into depth about how a movement for equal rights defined her family and generations before and after.

We’re promoting An Unfinished Revolution, scheduled for release on June 1, 2021, because it is an important example of what you can be doing to pass on important legacy stories in your own family. It can include a legacy letter, a legacy recipe, a family legacy cookbook,and more. An Unfinished Revolution is an example of how far anyone can take simple projects to the most complex. Here is what “lifestorican” Emma Fulenwider has to say.

Find out more about Emma on SuffrageCentennials.com

SuffrageCentennials.com has been publishing since 2013.

DON’T LET SUFFRAGE ORGANIZING IN VIRGINIA BE LEFT BEHIND!

NEWS NOTE ABOUT BOOK, “AN UNFINISHED REVOLUTION”

An article about the Spirit of 1776 suffrage campaign wagon used by Edna Kearns and others in 1913 appeared in the winter 2020-2021 issue of New York History.

SUNY Press featured An Unfinished Revolution in the spring catalog to announce the release of the book in June of 2021.

SuffrageCentennials.com has been publishing since 2013.

PLANNING FOR “CONVENTION DAYS” IN SENECA FALLS, NY DURING 2021

“Convention Days” will be held in Seneca Falls, NY in 2021. But no dates or the specifics of the planning are available at this time. Check in with us later.

ALICE PAUL INSTITUTE MOVES INTO 2021

Supporting education for youth is an important priority for Alice Paul Institute programming.

Teachers—Many of those who watched the PBS documentary “The Vote,” responded in the same way. “I had no idea the campaigning was so difficult and it took so long.”

There is so much material available now that the following video was produced long before we’d reach a tipping point about writing US women into history.

American women picketed White House over 100 years ago in support of voting rights! on Vimeo.

SuffrageCentennials.com has been publishing since 2013.