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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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Mary T. Vermette
Sara Ann Delano
Huybertie Hamlin
Maria Alves
Amelia Jones
Mabel Knipe
Lena Britto
Mary Ann Hathaway Tripp
Cornelia Grinnell
Tryne Costa
Josephine Teixeira
Zoe Alysse Washington Fabio
Helena de Kay Gilder
Rita Lopes
Betsey B. Winslow
Kathleen Comiskey Roberts
Cecil Clark Davis
Dineia Sylvia
Laura Keene
Elizabeth Taber
Marial M. Harper
Lillian B. Lamoureux
Archangela Fortes
Anna Elizabeth White
Sylvia Ann Howland
Anna Murray Douglass
Harriet Didriksen
Ora Inge Maxim
Valentina Almeida
Eulalia Mendes
Sylvia Ann Howland Green Wilks
Marie Equi
Nancy Holt
Jane Jackson
Margery V. “Ruby” Dottin
Marie A. Nelson
Emma Hall
Eleanor W. Morton
Shirley Bernice Cohen
Elizabeth Payson Prentiss
Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard
Ruth S. Atkinson
Florence Waite
Nora Ouimette Duprey
Theodosia Chase
Cordelia Vien
Alberta Simmons Brownell
Margaret Ryckebusch
Bertha Cohen
Frances Eliot Gifford
Ada Woolley Sullivan
Consuelo M. Sousa
Mercy Etta Baker
Louise E. Strongman
Ida M. Eliot
Mary Ann Flanagan Hayden
Cara Leland Rogers
Deborah Weston
Mary Schwartz
Lillian Ross
Hope Atkinson
Mary Rotch
Florence Eastman
Theresa Dougall
Mary B. H. Ransom
Sylvia Finger
Helen Worthing Webster
Aurélia Benoît Lebeau
Mary B. Montrond
Elizabeth Marble
Mary Hall Leonard
Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence
Jennie Horne
Elizabeth Piper Ensley
Marian Shaw Smith
Mary Santos Barros
Geraldine Gomes
Lillian Lorraine Yonally
Dora Bastarache
Maria (Maja) Capek
Noelie Houle
Laurinda C. Andrade
Alice Howland Macomber
Elizabeth Leonard
Amelia Piper
Alberta Mae Knox
Awashonks
Weetamoo
Annie Holmes Ricketson
Rebecca L. H. Taber
Rosalind Poll Brooker
Clementina “Tina” Ponte
Ruby Devol Finch
Loretta Bourque
Eliza Bierstadt
Rosetta Douglass
Pauline Meyer Colyar
Sister Aurora Helena Avelar
Belmira Nunes
Emma Louise Piper

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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