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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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Belmira Nunes
Nancy Holt
Phebe Hart Mendall
Sarah R. Delano
Harriet Didriksen
Frances Eliot Gifford
Marie A. Nelson
Ellen Kempton
Bertha Cohen
Lena Britto
Mary Schwartz
Jane Jackson
Ruth S. Atkinson
Mary Parker Converse
Eliza Bierstadt
Hope Atkinson
Zoe Alysse Washington Fabio
Mary Hall Leonard
Alice Virginia Bradford Tobey Jones
Lillian Ross
Margaret Ryckebusch
Elizabeth Payson Prentiss
Rubye Haffer Finger
Aurélia Benoît Lebeau
Gratia Montgomery
Eleanor W. Morton
Mary Santos Barros
Sylvia Finger
Mary B. Montrond
Anna Elizabeth White
Dora Bastarache
Rosemary S. Tierney
Kathleen Comiskey Roberts
Ora M. DeJesus
Nora Ouimette Duprey
Laura Keene
Dineia Sylvia
Lillian B. Lamoureux
Geraldine Gomes
Florence Waite
Sue Wong van Wiggeren
Maria (Maja) Capek
Elizabeth Piper Ensley
Martha Bush Gray
Sara Ann Delano
Charlotte White
Elizabeth Taber
Jennie Horne
Josephine Teixeira
Florence Eastman
Alberta Mae Knox
Emily Noyes Vanderpoel
Gladys Heuberger Sherman Ellis
Martha Bailey Briggs
Louise E. Strongman
Margaret Xifaras
Ora Inge Maxim
Rita Lopes
Emily Howland Bourne
Amelia Jones
Archangela Fortes
Helen Elizabeth Ellis
Mary Hudson Onley
Sister Aurora Helena Avelar
Marian Shaw Smith
Anna Murray Douglass
Rosetta Douglass
Loretta Bourque
Pauline Meyer Colyar
Mary Elizabeth Hartley
Helen Worthing Webster
Marie Equi
Noelie Houle
Mabel Knipe
Marial M. Harper
Helena de Kay Gilder
Mary B. H. Ransom
Shirley Bernice Cohen
Lydia Grinnell Brown
Huybertie Hamlin
Cornelia Grinnell
Rosalind Poll Brooker
Cordelia Vien
Rebecca L. H. Taber
Caroline Leonard Goodenough
Cara Leland Rogers
Edith Guerrier
Consuelo M. Sousa
Cecil Clark Davis
Amelia Piper
Mary T. Vermette
Ruby Devol Finch
Margery V. “Ruby” Dottin
Emma Louise Piper
Betsey B. Winslow
Alice Howland Macomber
Carol Haney
Mary Ann Flanagan Hayden
Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence
Mary Ricketson Bullard

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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