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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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Emily Noyes Vanderpoel
Emma Hall
Rosetta Douglass
Lillian Lorraine Yonally
Elizabeth Leonard
Martha Bush Gray
Sylvia Finger
Rubye Haffer Finger
Mary Ricketson Bullard
Maria (Maja) Capek
Jane Jackson
Ruby Devol Finch
Bertha Cohen
Mary Schwartz
Alice Virginia Bradford Tobey Jones
Belmira Nunes
Maria Alves
Eleanor W. Morton
Gratia Montgomery
Valentina Almeida
Carol Haney
Sister Rosellen Gallogly
Phebe Hart Mendall
Clementina “Tina” Ponte
Cordelia Vien
Shirley Bernice Cohen
Lydia Grinnell Brown
Mary Hall Leonard
Harriet Jacobs
Archangela Fortes
Sarah Rotch Arnold
Emily Howland Bourne
Margery V. “Ruby” Dottin
Margaret Ryckebusch
Rosalind Poll Brooker
Mary T. Vermette
Mary Santos Barros
Rosemary S. Tierney
Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard
Carrie Lee
Dora Bastarache
Sue Wong van Wiggeren
Cornelia Grinnell
Minna Littmann
Sarah R. Delano
Elizabeth Piper Ensley
Juan Bennett Drummond
Eulalia Mendes
Frances Eliot Gifford
Flora B. Peirce
Mary Stanley
Margaret Xifaras
Laurinda C. Andrade
Lillian B. Lamoureux
Tryne Costa
Geraldine Gomes
Rebecca L. H. Taber
Mary Ann Hathaway Tripp
Eloise Solomon Pina
Sylvia Ann Howland
Gladys Heuberger Sherman Ellis
Ora M. DeJesus
Amelia Jones
Amelia Piper
Elizabeth Marble
Ada Woolley Sullivan
Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence
Rachel Howland
Rosamond Guinn
Helen Worthing Webster
Martha Bailey Briggs
Ruth S. Atkinson
Mercy Etta Baker
Zoe Alysse Washington Fabio
Cecil Clark Davis
Louise E. Strongman
Rita Lopes
Hetty Green
Florence Eastman
Marian Shaw Smith
Anna Elizabeth White
Ida M. Eliot
Loretta Bourque
Theresa Dougall
Hope Atkinson
Marie Equi
Dineia Sylvia
Charlotte White
Helen Elizabeth Ellis
Cara Leland Rogers
Awashonks
Mary Hudson Onley
Sylvia Ann Howland Green Wilks
Mabel Knipe
Florence Waite
Laura Keene
Elizabeth Taber
Helena de Kay Gilder
Nancy Holt
Kathleen Comiskey Roberts

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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