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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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Emily Noyes Vanderpoel
Sister Rosellen Gallogly
Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence
Caroline Leonard Goodenough
Ora M. DeJesus
Harriet Jacobs
Helen Worthing Webster
Mary Santos Barros
Sylvia Ann Howland
Alberta Mae Knox
Josephine Teixeira
Loretta Bourque
Gratia Montgomery
Ada Woolley Sullivan
Nancy Holt
Lena Britto
Ruby Devol Finch
Zoe Alysse Washington Fabio
Consuelo M. Sousa
Laura Keene
Anna Murray Douglass
Laurinda C. Andrade
Jane C. Waters
Geraldine Gomes
Marial M. Harper
Mary Hudson Onley
Ellen Kempton
Minna Littmann
Mary J. “Polly” Johnson
Maria (Maja) Capek
Sara Ann Delano
Tryne Costa
Sarah Rotch Arnold
Bertha Cohen
Sylvia Finger
Rebecca L. H. Taber
Hope Atkinson
Martha Bailey Briggs
Helena de Kay Gilder
Hetty Green
Sylvia Ann Howland Green Wilks
Weetamoo
Mary Schwartz
Betsey B. Winslow
Emma Louise Piper
Kathleen Comiskey Roberts
Anna Elizabeth White
Margery V. “Ruby” Dottin
Mary Rotch
Emily Howland Bourne
Lillian B. Lamoureux
Margaret Xifaras
Suzanne Marjorie Stockard Underwood
Sister Aurora Helena Avelar
Helen Elizabeth Ellis
Rosamond Guinn
Carrie Lee
Mary T. Vermette
Rachel Howland
Harriet Didriksen
Elizabeth Leonard
Louise E. Strongman
Archangela Fortes
Alberta Simmons Brownell
Sarah R. Delano
Mary Ann Flanagan Hayden
Huybertie Hamlin
Mary Ann Hathaway Tripp
Shirley Bernice Cohen
Emma Hall
Flora B. Peirce
Jennie Horne
Sue Wong van Wiggeren
Mary B. H. Ransom
Phebe Hart Mendall
Mabel Knipe
Jane Jackson
Alice Howland Macomber
Belmira Nunes
Margaret Ryckebusch
Elizabeth Piper Ensley
Florence Eastman
Mary B. Montrond
Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard
Mary Stanley
Ida M. Eliot
Awashonks
Marie Equi
Clementina “Tina” Ponte
Lillian Lorraine Yonally
Edith Guerrier
Cecil Clark Davis
Elizabeth Taber
Elizabeth Payson Prentiss
Elizabeth Carter Brooks
Maria Alves
Marie A. Nelson
Theresa Dougall
Noelie Houle
Eulalia Mendes

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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