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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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Ora M. DeJesus
Jennie Horne
Mary Hall Leonard
Margaret Ryckebusch
Jane Jackson
Kathleen Comiskey Roberts
Mary Santos Barros
Cecil Clark Davis
Carol Haney
Theresa Dougall
Marial M. Harper
Mary Stanley
Ora Inge Maxim
Dineia Sylvia
Juan Bennett Drummond
Elizabeth Marble
Carrie Lee
Jane C. Waters
Mary T. Vermette
Deborah Weston
Mary Ricketson Bullard
Rebecca L. H. Taber
Rachel Howland
Lillian Ross
Awashonks
Maria (Maja) Capek
Helen Elizabeth Ellis
Minna Littmann
Valentina Almeida
Martha Bailey Briggs
Mary Parker Converse
Marie A. Nelson
Rosamond Guinn
Theodosia Chase
Alice Virginia Bradford Tobey Jones
Mary Rotch
Harriet Jacobs
Mabel Knipe
Mary Ann Hathaway Tripp
Elizabeth Taber
Gratia Montgomery
Emily Noyes Vanderpoel
Amelia Piper
Mary Schwartz
Cornelia Grinnell
Eliza Bierstadt
Suzanne Marjorie Stockard Underwood
Alberta Simmons Brownell
Sue Wong van Wiggeren
Hope Atkinson
Ellen Kempton
Zoe Alysse Washington Fabio
Aurélia Benoît Lebeau
Rita Lopes
Elizabeth Carter Brooks
Elizabeth Piper Ensley
Hetty Green
Consuelo M. Sousa
Lillian Lorraine Yonally
Huybertie Hamlin
Sara Ann Delano
Noelie Houle
Florence Eastman
Mary Elizabeth Hartley
Clementina “Tina” Ponte
Loretta Bourque
Emma Louise Piper
Rubye Haffer Finger
Marie Equi
Sylvia Finger
Flora B. Peirce
Sister Rosellen Gallogly
Gladys Heuberger Sherman Ellis
Tryne Costa
Sylvia Ann Howland
Mary A. Smith
Maria Alves
Mary B. Montrond
Amelia Jones
Ida M. Eliot
Sister Aurora Helena Avelar
Louise E. Strongman
Shirley Bernice Cohen
Sarah R. Delano
Sarah Rotch Arnold
Ruby Devol Finch
Geraldine Gomes
Marian Shaw Smith
Mary B. H. Ransom
Nancy Holt
Lillian B. Lamoureux
Belmira Nunes
Charlotte White
Emily Howland Bourne
Mary Hudson Onley
Margery V. “Ruby” Dottin
Rosemary S. Tierney
Edith Guerrier
Bertha Cohen
Elizabeth Terry Delano

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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