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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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Hope Atkinson
Valentina Almeida
Marial M. Harper
Sylvia Ann Howland Green Wilks
Flora B. Peirce
Margery V. “Ruby” Dottin
Lydia Grinnell Brown
Caroline Leonard Goodenough
Theresa Dougall
Sylvia Finger
Zoe Alysse Washington Fabio
Mary A. Smith
Ruth S. Atkinson
Lillian Lorraine Yonally
Laura Keene
Emma Hall
Tryne Costa
Mary Elizabeth Hartley
Suzanne Marjorie Stockard Underwood
Anna Murray Douglass
Alice Virginia Bradford Tobey Jones
Jane Jackson
Rita Lopes
Archangela Fortes
Mary Rotch
Mary Schwartz
Emily Noyes Vanderpoel
Mary Ricketson Bullard
Phebe Hart Mendall
Amelia Jones
Eliza Bierstadt
Louise E. Strongman
Ora M. DeJesus
Bertha Cohen
Harriet Jacobs
Sara Ann Delano
Ruby Devol Finch
Ida M. Eliot
Sue Wong van Wiggeren
Elizabeth Terry Delano
Betsey B. Winslow
Rosamond Guinn
Eloise Solomon Pina
Ada Woolley Sullivan
Eulalia Mendes
Shirley Bernice Cohen
Harriet Didriksen
Elizabeth Taber
Carol Haney
Marie A. Nelson
Cara Leland Rogers
Martha Bailey Briggs
Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard
Kathleen Comiskey Roberts
Rosemary S. Tierney
Ellen Kempton
Gratia Montgomery
Mary Hudson Onley
Dora Bastarache
Elizabeth Carter Brooks
Huybertie Hamlin
Elizabeth Leonard
Rachel Howland
Mary J. “Polly” Johnson
Elizabeth Marble
Jane C. Waters
Emma Louise Piper
Martha Bush Gray
Emily Howland Bourne
Loretta Bourque
Mary B. H. Ransom
Frances Eliot Gifford
Cordelia Vien
Sarah D. Ottiwell
Josephine Teixeira
Deborah Weston
Rosetta Douglass
Margaret Xifaras
Awashonks
Laurinda C. Andrade
Aurélia Benoît Lebeau
Edith Guerrier
Mary Hall Leonard
Minna Littmann
Juan Bennett Drummond
Alberta Simmons Brownell
Alberta Mae Knox
Florence Eastman
Maria (Maja) Capek
Mary B. Montrond
Margaret Ryckebusch
Theodosia Chase
Carrie Lee
Rebecca L. H. Taber
Helena de Kay Gilder
Gladys Heuberger Sherman Ellis
Sylvia Ann Howland
Mabel Knipe
Sister Aurora Helena Avelar
Geraldine Gomes

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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