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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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Sara Ann Delano
Rubye Haffer Finger
Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence
Betsey B. Winslow
Jane C. Waters
Ora Inge Maxim
Rosamond Guinn
Marian Shaw Smith
Margaret Xifaras
Margery V. “Ruby” Dottin
Mercy Etta Baker
Rebecca L. H. Taber
Mary A. Smith
Alice Virginia Bradford Tobey Jones
Helena de Kay Gilder
Rosetta Douglass
Dora Bastarache
Gladys Heuberger Sherman Ellis
Lydia Grinnell Brown
Mary Elizabeth Hartley
Mary J. “Polly” Johnson
Elizabeth Carter Brooks
Elizabeth Marble
Elizabeth Terry Delano
Clementina “Tina” Ponte
Amelia Jones
Maria (Maja) Capek
Lillian B. Lamoureux
Maria Alves
Ruth S. Atkinson
Juan Bennett Drummond
Lena Britto
Hetty Green
Cordelia Vien
Mary Rotch
Mary B. H. Ransom
Sarah R. Delano
Sylvia Ann Howland Green Wilks
Eloise Solomon Pina
Ida M. Eliot
Elizabeth Piper Ensley
Edith Guerrier
Laura Keene
Alice Howland Macomber
Ora M. DeJesus
Caroline Leonard Goodenough
Alberta Mae Knox
Theresa Dougall
Cornelia Grinnell
Dineia Sylvia
Mary Ann Hathaway Tripp
Ellen Kempton
Bertha Cohen
Eulalia Mendes
Florence Waite
Marie A. Nelson
Sarah Rotch Arnold
Consuelo M. Sousa
Helen Elizabeth Ellis
Louise E. Strongman
Mabel Knipe
Gratia Montgomery
Flora B. Peirce
Elizabeth Taber
Shirley Bernice Cohen
Sarah D. Ottiwell
Carrie Lee
Rosalind Poll Brooker
Marie Equi
Archangela Fortes
Tryne Costa
Mary B. Montrond
Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard
Minna Littmann
Aurélia Benoît Lebeau
Emma Louise Piper
Deborah Weston
Amelia Piper
Sylvia Ann Howland
Mary T. Vermette
Geraldine Gomes
Mary Ann Flanagan Hayden
Elizabeth Leonard
Huybertie Hamlin
Harriet Didriksen
Anna Elizabeth White
Elizabeth Payson Prentiss
Awashonks
Laurinda C. Andrade
Eliza Bierstadt
Emily Noyes Vanderpoel
Weetamoo
Carol Haney
Lillian Ross
Sister Aurora Helena Avelar
Eleanor W. Morton
Martha Bush Gray
Theodosia Chase
Martha Bailey Briggs
Mary Hudson Onley

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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