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Olivia Twine and Marguerite Kearns

Votes for Women Trail: Federal Legislation Needed Now

December 18, 2013 by Olivia Twine and Marguerite Kearns 3 Comments

Appeal to Santa for a women's trailWhen we visited the national park in Seneca Falls, NY this year we asked Noemi “Ami” Ghazala, superintendent of the Women’s Rights National Historical Park, about the significance of the feds reaching the “stakeholder” phase in the Votes for Women trail process. “We really don’t know what it means,” she said. “The criteria may sit there for a short time or remain there for years.”

This was alarming enough. Then we checked into the statistical probability of Congressional approval for funding the Votes for Women federal trail in the Finger Lakes region. We consulted the tracking web site for Congress and stumbled on the prediction that we might find coal in our stockings this year if we’re expecting a reauthorization of a bill that includes a Votes for Women federal trail. This is complicated by the fact that federal funding must be delivered separately. [Read more…] about Votes for Women Trail: Federal Legislation Needed Now

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Cradle of Womens Rights, Gender History, Harriet Tubman, Political History, Public History, Suffrage Movement, Votes for Women Trail, womens history

Dear Santa: Please Bring Us A Women’s History Tourism Trail

December 16, 2013 by Olivia Twine and Marguerite Kearns 8 Comments

Cradle of the U.S. women's rights movement is in NYPLEASE HELP, Santa. What we really want for Christmas is a women’s trail.

When members of the U.S. Congress and the New York State Legislature open their doors in January 2014, chances are that they will have received notice of our holiday appeal.

The reason for asking Santa, Mrs. Claus and the elves for assistance is because of the urgent need for help in obtaining funding to advance women’s trails on both the state and federal levels. Realistically Santa might not be able to deliver on trails by December 25th, but that’s no reason to give up. [Read more…] about Dear Santa: Please Bring Us A Women’s History Tourism Trail

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Andrew Cuomo, Cradle of Womens Rights, Education, Gender History, Public History, Tourism, Votes for Women Trail, womens history

‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ in Seneca Falls, New York

December 9, 2013 by Olivia Twine and Marguerite Kearns 6 Comments

Christmas film classic: "It's a Wonderful Life"George Bailey: What is it you want, Mary? What do you want? You want the moon? Just say the word and I’ll throw a lasso around it and pull it down. Hey. That’s a pretty good idea. I’ll give you the moon, Mary.

Mary: I’ll take it. Then what?

George Bailey: Well, then you can swallow it, and it’ll all dissolve, see… and the moonbeams would shoot out of your fingers and your toes and the ends of your hair… am I talking too much?

What’s Christmas without putting your feet up and watching “It’s a Wonderful Life”? This much-loved holiday classic is an industry for Seneca Falls, New York at this time of the year. [Read more…] about ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ in Seneca Falls, New York

Filed Under: Events, New Exhibits Tagged With: Cradle of Womens Rights, Economic Development, Film History, Gender History, Seneca Falls, Suffrage Movement, Votes for Women Trail, womens history

Harriet Tubman and the Projected National Park

November 6, 2013 by Olivia Twine and Marguerite Kearns 5 Comments

Tubman HospitalEach week day there’s a consistent flow of visitors at the Harriet Tubman Home, with people anxious to find out more about Tubman, her life story, and see for themselves where Tubman lived and operated a haven for the aged at 180 South Street in Auburn.

Visitors pull into the parking lot to visit the property, museum exhibit, and take advantage of guided tours from the moment the doors open in the morning until closing at the end of the day. License plates on the travelers’ vehicles are from New York State and beyond. [Read more…] about Harriet Tubman and the Projected National Park

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Abolition, Black History, Cayuga County, Cradle of Womens Rights, Harriet Tubman, Historic Preservation, National Park Service, Political History, Slavery, womens history

The Politics of Harriet Tubman and Barack Obama

November 4, 2013 by Olivia Twine and Marguerite Kearns 11 Comments

Harriet Tubman Home in Auburn, NYIt’s the centennial year of abolitionist and suffragist Harriet Tubman’s death in 1913. Her Auburn, NY house, the home for the aged she founded on the property, and the museum attract considerable attention in upstate New York. We visited the Tubman historic site on the fifth day of our fall 2013 blogging tour of the “Cradle of the women’s rights movement in the US.” [Read more…] about The Politics of Harriet Tubman and Barack Obama

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Abolition, Black History, Cradle of Womens Rights, Economic Development, Gender History, Harriet Tubman, National Park Service, Political History, Public History, Seneca Falls, Slavery, Suffrage Movement, womens history

Can The Women’s Rights Trail Become Reality?

October 8, 2013 by Olivia Twine and Marguerite Kearns 4 Comments

2-HouseSignThe federal government shutdown in Washington, DC may have dimmed the lights at the Elizabeth Cady Stanton house in Seneca Falls, NY, at the visitors’ center, Wesleyan Chapel, and other park site locations. But it didn’t deter our determination to continue on the blogging tour of the “Cradle of the Women’s Rights Movement in the US” that has kept us busy.

Seneca Falls took up most of our fourth day on this blogging tour that also included Johnstown, Fayetteville, Auburn, Rochester, and Farmington. Identifying what constitutes the “cradle” is an informal process we devised that highlights key locations of activism located in a geographic area of the Finger Lakes region in upstate New York that suggests a cradle shape. [Read more…] about Can The Women’s Rights Trail Become Reality?

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Civil Rights, Cradle of Womens Rights, Economic Development, Elizabeth Cady Stanton House, Gender History, Public History, Seneca Falls, Suffrage Movement, Votes for Women Trail, womens history

Women’s Rights: The Matilda Joslyn Gage Home

October 2, 2013 by Olivia Twine and Marguerite Kearns 3 Comments

3-GageHouseIt’s helpful to know about the Matilda Joslyn Gage Center in advance or you might miss it when driving through Fayetteville, NY (Onondaga County) – even though it’s strategically located on the main street.

Fayetteville is a small upstate town in the “cradle” of New York’s women’s rights movement, centrally located for those activists who worked with Gage and others while seeking radical social change in the years before and after the Civil War. [Read more…] about Women’s Rights: The Matilda Joslyn Gage Home

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Cradle of Womens Rights, Joslyn Gage Center, Onondaga County, Suffrage Movement, Tourism, womens history

In Johnstown, Hope for Votes for Women Trail Funding

September 30, 2013 by Olivia Twine and Marguerite Kearns 3 Comments

piano-72-LittleIt’s late afternoon in Johnstown, NY, magic hour, right before sunset when filmmakers capture the best lighting. Nancy Brown, a fifth grade teacher, is waiting to take us to the local historical society and out to dinner with three other board members of the Elizabeth Cady Stanton Hometown Association.

This is the town where well-known women’s rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton grew up. The place is also loaded with history of the American Revolution, plus generations of tanners and workers in the glove industry who lived and worked here. We can’t get to the Johnstown Historical Society at 17 North William Street without passing sites of major historical interest. It’s as if everybody is related in some way to this historical community. It looks like classic small town America, made in America. [Read more…] about In Johnstown, Hope for Votes for Women Trail Funding

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Cradle of Womens Rights, Elizabeth Cady Stanton House, Fulton County, Gender History, Johnstown, Johnstown Historical Society, Public History, Suffrage Movement, Votes for Women Trail, womens history

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