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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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Shirley Bernice Cohen
Juan Bennett Drummond
Alice Virginia Bradford Tobey Jones
Ada Woolley Sullivan
Dineia Sylvia
Aurélia Benoît Lebeau
Sylvia Ann Howland Green Wilks
Helen Elizabeth Ellis
Margaret Ryckebusch
Sarah D. Ottiwell
Eliza Bierstadt
Elizabeth Marble
Theodosia Chase
Caroline Leonard Goodenough
Lillian Ross
Dora Bastarache
Huybertie Hamlin
Rosamond Guinn
Archangela Fortes
Mary Stanley
Ida M. Eliot
Consuelo M. Sousa
Cecil Clark Davis
Awashonks
Mary Elizabeth Hartley
Emma Hall
Charlotte White
Ora M. DeJesus
Anna Elizabeth White
Hetty Green
Mary Schwartz
Elizabeth Taber
Lena Britto
Cordelia Vien
Nora Ouimette Duprey
Helen Worthing Webster
Alberta Mae Knox
Florence Waite
Carrie Lee
Lillian B. Lamoureux
Minna Littmann
Edith Guerrier
Elizabeth Piper Ensley
Louise E. Strongman
Deborah Weston
Mary Rotch
Noelie Houle
Harriet Didriksen
Phebe Hart Mendall
Mary Hall Leonard
Marian Shaw Smith
Kathleen Comiskey Roberts
Ruby Devol Finch
Geraldine Gomes
Mary T. Vermette
Cornelia Grinnell
Jennie Horne
Amelia Piper
Frances Eliot Gifford
Lydia Grinnell Brown
Eloise Solomon Pina
Sarah R. Delano
Jane C. Waters
Margery V. “Ruby” Dottin
Helena de Kay Gilder
Carol Haney
Mary Ricketson Bullard
Bertha Cohen
Elizabeth Leonard
Sara Ann Delano
Amelia Jones
Annie Holmes Ricketson
Rita Lopes
Elizabeth Carter Brooks
Nancy Holt
Marial M. Harper
Rosalind Poll Brooker
Cara Leland Rogers
Margaret Xifaras
Rebecca L. H. Taber
Josephine Teixeira
Jane Jackson
Laura Keene
Suzanne Marjorie Stockard Underwood
Florence Eastman
Rosetta Douglass
Alberta Simmons Brownell
Gladys Heuberger Sherman Ellis
Marie Equi
Eulalia Mendes
Belmira Nunes
Sister Rosellen Gallogly
Sue Wong van Wiggeren
Harriet Jacobs
Rachel Howland
Ruth S. Atkinson
Maria Alves
Mary B. Montrond
Alice Howland Macomber
Martha Bush Gray

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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