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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
Mary Schwartz
Marian Shaw Smith
Cecil Clark Davis
Marial M. Harper
Rosamond Guinn
Mary B. Montrond
Sister Aurora Helena Avelar
Marie A. Nelson
Jane C. Waters
Margery V. “Ruby” Dottin
Josephine Teixeira
Alice Howland Macomber
Ora M. DeJesus
Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard
Nora Ouimette Duprey
Awashonks
Ora Inge Maxim
Mary Elizabeth Hartley
Laurinda C. Andrade
Elizabeth Piper Ensley
Lillian Ross
Sylvia Ann Howland Green Wilks
Anna Elizabeth White
Sarah R. Delano
Amelia Jones
Elizabeth Payson Prentiss
Rosemary S. Tierney
Belmira Nunes
Alberta Simmons Brownell
Hetty Green
Laura Keene
Annie Holmes Ricketson
Lillian Lorraine Yonally
Gladys Heuberger Sherman Ellis
Shirley Bernice Cohen
Sister Rosellen Gallogly
Bertha Cohen
Mary Stanley
Archangela Fortes
Valentina Almeida
Alice Virginia Bradford Tobey Jones
Phebe Hart Mendall
Cordelia Vien
Eulalia Mendes
Tryne Costa
Martha Bailey Briggs
Mary J. “Polly” Johnson
Geraldine Gomes
Aurélia Benoît Lebeau
Flora B. Peirce
Lillian B. Lamoureux
Harriet Didriksen
Deborah Weston
Dora Bastarache
Mercy Etta Baker
Emma Louise Piper
Huybertie Hamlin
Elizabeth Marble
Rita Lopes
Jane Jackson
Rebecca L. H. Taber
Betsey B. Winslow
Elizabeth Taber
Carol Haney
Rubye Haffer Finger
Frances Eliot Gifford
Pauline Meyer Colyar
Clementina “Tina” Ponte
Zoe Alysse Washington Fabio
Cara Leland Rogers
Kathleen Comiskey Roberts
Sylvia Finger
Mary T. Vermette
Elizabeth Carter Brooks
Emma Hall
Theresa Dougall
Sara Ann Delano
Mary Ricketson Bullard
Elizabeth Terry Delano
Mary Rotch
Carrie Lee
Margaret Ryckebusch
Dineia Sylvia
Maria (Maja) Capek
Rosetta Douglass
Ida M. Eliot
Loretta Bourque
Martha Bush Gray
Helen Elizabeth Ellis
Mary Ann Flanagan Hayden
Ada Woolley Sullivan
Sylvia Ann Howland
Sue Wong van Wiggeren
Mary B. H. Ransom
Jennie Horne
Ellen Kempton
Marie Equi
Elizabeth Leonard
Sarah Rotch Arnold

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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