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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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Sarah D. Ottiwell
Helen Worthing Webster
Ruby Devol Finch
Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard
Ellen Kempton
Flora B. Peirce
Mary Ann Flanagan Hayden
Ora Inge Maxim
Maria (Maja) Capek
Mary Hudson Onley
Mercy Etta Baker
Huybertie Hamlin
Mary Rotch
Theresa Dougall
Ida M. Eliot
Helen Elizabeth Ellis
Mary B. H. Ransom
Rita Lopes
Pauline Meyer Colyar
Elizabeth Piper Ensley
Amelia Jones
Ruth S. Atkinson
Mary Stanley
Louise E. Strongman
Nancy Holt
Sylvia Finger
Deborah Weston
Shirley Bernice Cohen
Alberta Mae Knox
Emily Noyes Vanderpoel
Sarah Rotch Arnold
Mary T. Vermette
Maria Alves
Cara Leland Rogers
Lena Britto
Rachel Howland
Alice Virginia Bradford Tobey Jones
Belmira Nunes
Hetty Green
Jane C. Waters
Minna Littmann
Josephine Teixeira
Mary Schwartz
Charlotte White
Awashonks
Elizabeth Leonard
Elizabeth Marble
Marial M. Harper
Mary Hall Leonard
Laura Keene
Margaret Ryckebusch
Alice Howland Macomber
Sara Ann Delano
Eulalia Mendes
Sylvia Ann Howland Green Wilks
Margaret Xifaras
Annie Holmes Ricketson
Ada Woolley Sullivan
Loretta Bourque
Tryne Costa
Lillian B. Lamoureux
Jane Jackson
Carol Haney
Mary A. Smith
Emma Louise Piper
Jennie Horne
Elizabeth Terry Delano
Emily Howland Bourne
Cornelia Grinnell
Rosalind Poll Brooker
Florence Waite
Cordelia Vien
Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence
Clementina “Tina” Ponte
Kathleen Comiskey Roberts
Harriet Didriksen
Archangela Fortes
Rebecca L. H. Taber
Mary Elizabeth Hartley
Lydia Grinnell Brown
Emma Hall
Caroline Leonard Goodenough
Martha Bailey Briggs
Betsey B. Winslow
Edith Guerrier
Suzanne Marjorie Stockard Underwood
Elizabeth Payson Prentiss
Hope Atkinson
Carrie Lee
Elizabeth Taber
Valentina Almeida
Sylvia Ann Howland
Anna Elizabeth White
Aurélia Benoît Lebeau
Mary J. “Polly” Johnson
Mary Parker Converse
Rubye Haffer Finger
Weetamoo
Phebe Hart Mendall
Juan Bennett Drummond

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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