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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
Pauline Meyer Colyar
Lillian B. Lamoureux
Deborah Weston
Alberta Mae Knox
Amelia Jones
Bertha Cohen
Margaret Ryckebusch
Sister Aurora Helena Avelar
Elizabeth Piper Ensley
Sarah R. Delano
Ora Inge Maxim
Marie A. Nelson
Charlotte White
Helen Elizabeth Ellis
Clementina “Tina” Ponte
Helena de Kay Gilder
Mary Parker Converse
Helen Worthing Webster
Rosalind Poll Brooker
Sarah D. Ottiwell
Sylvia Ann Howland
Eloise Solomon Pina
Rachel Howland
Theresa Dougall
Eleanor W. Morton
Mary Hudson Onley
Josephine Teixeira
Marian Shaw Smith
Amelia Piper
Eulalia Mendes
Mary B. H. Ransom
Laurinda C. Andrade
Elizabeth Marble
Nora Ouimette Duprey
Emily Howland Bourne
Alice Howland Macomber
Emma Hall
Harriet Jacobs
Alberta Simmons Brownell
Cecil Clark Davis
Geraldine Gomes
Mary Stanley
Ida M. Eliot
Elizabeth Leonard
Lillian Lorraine Yonally
Tryne Costa
Jane C. Waters
Martha Bush Gray
Elizabeth Taber
Florence Eastman
Aurélia Benoît Lebeau
Rubye Haffer Finger
Elizabeth Carter Brooks
Zoe Alysse Washington Fabio
Martha Bailey Briggs
Mary Hall Leonard
Mary Elizabeth Hartley
Cara Leland Rogers
Jane Jackson
Ellen Kempton
Belmira Nunes
Carol Haney
Ruby Devol Finch
Valentina Almeida
Mary Ricketson Bullard
Rita Lopes
Mary Schwartz
Anna Murray Douglass
Huybertie Hamlin
Margery V. “Ruby” Dottin
Mary Santos Barros
Louise E. Strongman
Sarah Rotch Arnold
Shirley Bernice Cohen
Loretta Bourque
Dineia Sylvia
Mary Rotch
Dora Bastarache
Mary B. Montrond
Rosemary S. Tierney
Sister Rosellen Gallogly
Gladys Heuberger Sherman Ellis
Theodosia Chase
Sylvia Finger
Mercy Etta Baker
Rebecca L. H. Taber
Harriet Didriksen
Edith Guerrier
Elizabeth Terry Delano
Mary J. “Polly” Johnson
Marie Equi
Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence
Consuelo M. Sousa
Archangela Fortes
Mary T. Vermette
Laura Keene
Ada Woolley Sullivan
Flora B. Peirce
Betsey B. Winslow

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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