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Lighting the Way – Historic Women of the South Coast tells the stories of commitment, determination and perseverance of women from a wide range of cultural and ethnic backgrounds.

“Women’s contributions have often been heard as whispers in history,” said Christina Bascom, the project’s designer. Spurred on by tales of a Petticoat Society, a group of women from throughout the community are bringing these stories to life on the SouthCoast. “We are unearthing remarkable stories of women’s personal callings that required grit, tenacity and enduring commitment to their families, community and country. These stories will inspire, motivate and inform generations to come.”

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Carol Haney
Caroline Leonard Goodenough
Sylvia Ann Howland Green Wilks
Pauline Meyer Colyar
Marie A. Nelson
Mary Elizabeth Hartley
Maria (Maja) Capek
Gratia Montgomery
Tryne Costa
Dora Bastarache
Ora Inge Maxim
Zoe Alysse Washington Fabio
Awashonks
Rosemary S. Tierney
Harriet Didriksen
Ellen Kempton
Amelia Piper
Harriet Jacobs
Elizabeth Payson Prentiss
Sara Ann Delano
Nancy Holt
Betsey B. Winslow
Clementina “Tina” Ponte
Emma Louise Piper
Sister Rosellen Gallogly
Marie Equi
Sue Wong van Wiggeren
Mary Rotch
Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence
Margaret Xifaras
Mary J. “Polly” Johnson
Jane Jackson
Cordelia Vien
Mary Schwartz
Marian Shaw Smith
Emma Hall
Mary B. H. Ransom
Martha Bailey Briggs
Hope Atkinson
Emily Howland Bourne
Cornelia Grinnell
Mary Parker Converse
Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard
Deborah Weston
Mary Stanley
Jane C. Waters
Gladys Heuberger Sherman Ellis
Consuelo M. Sousa
Edith Guerrier
Ruth S. Atkinson
Minna Littmann
Loretta Bourque
Sarah R. Delano
Rosalind Poll Brooker
Sister Aurora Helena Avelar
Geraldine Gomes
Sylvia Ann Howland
Frances Eliot Gifford
Kathleen Comiskey Roberts
Rebecca L. H. Taber
Belmira Nunes
Theodosia Chase
Rosetta Douglass
Dineia Sylvia
Aurélia Benoît Lebeau
Laura Keene
Elizabeth Piper Ensley
Mary Hudson Onley
Mary Ricketson Bullard
Hetty Green
Ada Woolley Sullivan
Ora M. DeJesus
Bertha Cohen
Martha Bush Gray
Charlotte White
Sarah D. Ottiwell
Lena Britto
Mabel Knipe
Elizabeth Terry Delano
Carrie Lee
Marial M. Harper
Laurinda C. Andrade
Mary B. Montrond
Florence Eastman
Sylvia Finger
Maria Alves
Anna Murray Douglass
Alberta Simmons Brownell
Huybertie Hamlin
Flora B. Peirce
Alice Virginia Bradford Tobey Jones
Suzanne Marjorie Stockard Underwood
Helen Worthing Webster
Jennie Horne
Rita Lopes
Rosamond Guinn
Rubye Haffer Finger
Valentina Almeida
Lillian Ross
Phebe Hart Mendall

Lighting the Way – Historic Women of the South Coast tells the stories of commitment, determination and perseverance of women from a wide range of cultural and ethnic backgrounds.

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