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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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Helen Worthing Webster
Ruby Devol Finch
Lydia Grinnell Brown
Rosemary S. Tierney
Mary Ricketson Bullard
Gladys Heuberger Sherman Ellis
Emily Noyes Vanderpoel
Rubye Haffer Finger
Rosamond Guinn
Mary Parker Converse
Amelia Jones
Jennie Horne
Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard
Anna Elizabeth White
Anna Murray Douglass
Cordelia Vien
Huybertie Hamlin
Mary J. “Polly” Johnson
Deborah Weston
Harriet Jacobs
Eloise Solomon Pina
Ada Woolley Sullivan
Sarah R. Delano
Theodosia Chase
Marie A. Nelson
Tryne Costa
Noelie Houle
Juan Bennett Drummond
Betsey B. Winslow
Alice Howland Macomber
Alberta Mae Knox
Hetty Green
Mabel Knipe
Carol Haney
Florence Eastman
Rosetta Douglass
Dineia Sylvia
Ellen Kempton
Weetamoo
Hope Atkinson
Sarah Rotch Arnold
Loretta Bourque
Helen Elizabeth Ellis
Mary Ann Flanagan Hayden
Lillian Lorraine Yonally
Martha Bush Gray
Edith Guerrier
Belmira Nunes
Marian Shaw Smith
Caroline Leonard Goodenough
Cornelia Grinnell
Martha Bailey Briggs
Harriet Didriksen
Margery V. “Ruby” Dottin
Mary Rotch
Zoe Alysse Washington Fabio
Phebe Hart Mendall
Mary B. Montrond
Frances Eliot Gifford
Flora B. Peirce
Josephine Teixeira
Clementina “Tina” Ponte
Bertha Cohen
Margaret Xifaras
Elizabeth Terry Delano
Ora Inge Maxim
Laurinda C. Andrade
Ora M. DeJesus
Dora Bastarache
Emma Hall
Mary Santos Barros
Marial M. Harper
Elizabeth Leonard
Maria (Maja) Capek
Mary T. Vermette
Consuelo M. Sousa
Sue Wong van Wiggeren
Eulalia Mendes
Rita Lopes
Lillian B. Lamoureux
Rosalind Poll Brooker
Cecil Clark Davis
Mercy Etta Baker
Mary Elizabeth Hartley
Lena Britto
Sylvia Ann Howland Green Wilks
Pauline Meyer Colyar
Ruth S. Atkinson
Maria Alves
Annie Holmes Ricketson
Awashonks
Mary A. Smith
Mary Hall Leonard
Nancy Holt
Elizabeth Taber
Mary Schwartz
Nora Ouimette Duprey
Jane C. Waters
Lillian Ross
Louise E. Strongman

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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