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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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Rubye Haffer Finger
Helen Worthing Webster
Laura Keene
Mary Rotch
Maria (Maja) Capek
Mary Schwartz
Elizabeth Piper Ensley
Eleanor W. Morton
Lillian Lorraine Yonally
Sue Wong van Wiggeren
Jane C. Waters
Hetty Green
Suzanne Marjorie Stockard Underwood
Cecil Clark Davis
Helen Elizabeth Ellis
Mary B. Montrond
Elizabeth Taber
Jennie Horne
Pauline Meyer Colyar
Sister Rosellen Gallogly
Sylvia Ann Howland Green Wilks
Consuelo M. Sousa
Marian Shaw Smith
Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard
Edith Guerrier
Mary Ricketson Bullard
Valentina Almeida
Amelia Piper
Josephine Teixeira
Florence Waite
Cornelia Grinnell
Carol Haney
Huybertie Hamlin
Anna Murray Douglass
Belmira Nunes
Nancy Holt
Dineia Sylvia
Rebecca L. H. Taber
Phebe Hart Mendall
Archangela Fortes
Bertha Cohen
Noelie Houle
Margaret Ryckebusch
Ellen Kempton
Sister Aurora Helena Avelar
Awashonks
Mary T. Vermette
Rita Lopes
Charlotte White
Mary Parker Converse
Sarah R. Delano
Flora B. Peirce
Annie Holmes Ricketson
Sarah Rotch Arnold
Gladys Heuberger Sherman Ellis
Betsey B. Winslow
Tryne Costa
Eloise Solomon Pina
Marie Equi
Alberta Mae Knox
Ora M. DeJesus
Cara Leland Rogers
Margaret Xifaras
Margery V. “Ruby” Dottin
Harriet Jacobs
Mary Hall Leonard
Alice Virginia Bradford Tobey Jones
Ruby Devol Finch
Amelia Jones
Ruth S. Atkinson
Rosamond Guinn
Hope Atkinson
Mary J. “Polly” Johnson
Lena Britto
Mary Ann Hathaway Tripp
Elizabeth Terry Delano
Minna Littmann
Mary Stanley
Kathleen Comiskey Roberts
Mabel Knipe
Helena de Kay Gilder
Loretta Bourque
Rosalind Poll Brooker
Louise E. Strongman
Anna Elizabeth White
Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence
Lillian Ross
Eulalia Mendes
Caroline Leonard Goodenough
Frances Eliot Gifford
Gratia Montgomery
Elizabeth Leonard
Jane Jackson
Mary Santos Barros
Emily Noyes Vanderpoel
Ada Woolley Sullivan
Alice Howland Macomber
Mary Elizabeth Hartley
Rosemary S. Tierney
Sylvia Finger

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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