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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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Annie Holmes Ricketson
Mary A. Smith
Mary B. Montrond
Lillian Lorraine Yonally
Emma Hall
Jennie Horne
Caroline Leonard Goodenough
Kathleen Comiskey Roberts
Mary J. “Polly” Johnson
Elizabeth Carter Brooks
Amelia Piper
Sister Aurora Helena Avelar
Tryne Costa
Mary T. Vermette
Lena Britto
Josephine Teixeira
Juan Bennett Drummond
Sarah Rotch Arnold
Consuelo M. Sousa
Theodosia Chase
Sylvia Ann Howland
Emma Louise Piper
Deborah Weston
Ruth S. Atkinson
Mary Hall Leonard
Shirley Bernice Cohen
Louise E. Strongman
Awashonks
Clementina “Tina” Ponte
Sue Wong van Wiggeren
Marie A. Nelson
Gladys Heuberger Sherman Ellis
Ora Inge Maxim
Jane C. Waters
Mary Schwartz
Mary Stanley
Anna Murray Douglass
Mary Santos Barros
Mary Parker Converse
Ada Woolley Sullivan
Geraldine Gomes
Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence
Marie Equi
Helen Worthing Webster
Anna Elizabeth White
Laurinda C. Andrade
Alberta Simmons Brownell
Rosalind Poll Brooker
Lillian B. Lamoureux
Margaret Xifaras
Sara Ann Delano
Mary Elizabeth Hartley
Lillian Ross
Aurélia Benoît Lebeau
Elizabeth Taber
Mary Ann Flanagan Hayden
Mary Rotch
Helen Elizabeth Ellis
Sister Rosellen Gallogly
Rosemary S. Tierney
Huybertie Hamlin
Sarah R. Delano
Elizabeth Payson Prentiss
Mary Hudson Onley
Mary Ricketson Bullard
Noelie Houle
Bertha Cohen
Frances Eliot Gifford
Alice Howland Macomber
Theresa Dougall
Marian Shaw Smith
Martha Bailey Briggs
Pauline Meyer Colyar
Alice Virginia Bradford Tobey Jones
Maria (Maja) Capek
Ora M. DeJesus
Ida M. Eliot
Lydia Grinnell Brown
Helena de Kay Gilder
Marial M. Harper
Cecil Clark Davis
Eliza Bierstadt
Phebe Hart Mendall
Nancy Holt
Eleanor W. Morton
Zoe Alysse Washington Fabio
Elizabeth Marble
Ellen Kempton
Rita Lopes
Dora Bastarache
Hope Atkinson
Margery V. “Ruby” Dottin
Rubye Haffer Finger
Rachel Howland
Florence Eastman
Maria Alves
Harriet Jacobs
Mercy Etta Baker
Suzanne Marjorie Stockard Underwood
Laura Keene

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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