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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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Cordelia Vien
Elizabeth Leonard
Mary B. Montrond
Alberta Mae Knox
Belmira Nunes
Loretta Bourque
Alice Howland Macomber
Caroline Leonard Goodenough
Aurélia Benoît Lebeau
Rita Lopes
Cecil Clark Davis
Geraldine Gomes
Sarah R. Delano
Lillian B. Lamoureux
Dora Bastarache
Josephine Teixeira
Betsey B. Winslow
Ida M. Eliot
Elizabeth Carter Brooks
Rosamond Guinn
Ruby Devol Finch
Clementina “Tina” Ponte
Hope Atkinson
Margaret Ryckebusch
Weetamoo
Mercy Etta Baker
Gratia Montgomery
Mary J. “Polly” Johnson
Ora M. DeJesus
Cara Leland Rogers
Marial M. Harper
Elizabeth Payson Prentiss
Cornelia Grinnell
Harriet Jacobs
Ruth S. Atkinson
Eleanor W. Morton
Sister Rosellen Gallogly
Alberta Simmons Brownell
Minna Littmann
Noelie Houle
Rebecca L. H. Taber
Laura Keene
Elizabeth Piper Ensley
Eloise Solomon Pina
Carol Haney
Theresa Dougall
Frances Eliot Gifford
Emma Louise Piper
Rosalind Poll Brooker
Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard
Mary Elizabeth Hartley
Anna Murray Douglass
Mabel Knipe
Maria (Maja) Capek
Awashonks
Helen Elizabeth Ellis
Archangela Fortes
Lena Britto
Sue Wong van Wiggeren
Marie Equi
Mary Stanley
Consuelo M. Sousa
Margery V. “Ruby” Dottin
Eliza Bierstadt
Rosetta Douglass
Emily Howland Bourne
Lillian Ross
Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence
Juan Bennett Drummond
Elizabeth Terry Delano
Mary T. Vermette
Mary B. H. Ransom
Alice Virginia Bradford Tobey Jones
Jane C. Waters
Emma Hall
Sarah Rotch Arnold
Louise E. Strongman
Ada Woolley Sullivan
Sarah D. Ottiwell
Marian Shaw Smith
Jennie Horne
Helen Worthing Webster
Huybertie Hamlin
Zoe Alysse Washington Fabio
Amelia Piper
Rachel Howland
Nora Ouimette Duprey
Charlotte White
Annie Holmes Ricketson
Rosemary S. Tierney
Helena de Kay Gilder
Mary Santos Barros
Maria Alves
Nancy Holt
Martha Bailey Briggs
Martha Bush Gray
Shirley Bernice Cohen
Ellen Kempton
Eulalia Mendes
Margaret Xifaras

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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