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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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Eliza Bierstadt
Cecil Clark Davis
Sister Rosellen Gallogly
Ida M. Eliot
Elizabeth Payson Prentiss
Elizabeth Carter Brooks
Mary Schwartz
Louise E. Strongman
Ora M. DeJesus
Hope Atkinson
Sara Ann Delano
Gratia Montgomery
Awashonks
Hetty Green
Cornelia Grinnell
Rosamond Guinn
Alberta Simmons Brownell
Laura Keene
Marial M. Harper
Mary A. Smith
Ellen Kempton
Suzanne Marjorie Stockard Underwood
Emily Howland Bourne
Ruth S. Atkinson
Kathleen Comiskey Roberts
Cordelia Vien
Minna Littmann
Gladys Heuberger Sherman Ellis
Eleanor W. Morton
Bertha Cohen
Laurinda C. Andrade
Emily Noyes Vanderpoel
Dora Bastarache
Elizabeth Marble
Archangela Fortes
Amelia Piper
Margaret Ryckebusch
Cara Leland Rogers
Theodosia Chase
Josephine Teixeira
Consuelo M. Sousa
Harriet Jacobs
Emma Hall
Ada Woolley Sullivan
Huybertie Hamlin
Mary Santos Barros
Marian Shaw Smith
Jane Jackson
Geraldine Gomes
Rachel Howland
Elizabeth Terry Delano
Juan Bennett Drummond
Carol Haney
Mary Hudson Onley
Caroline Leonard Goodenough
Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence
Mary J. “Polly” Johnson
Maria (Maja) Capek
Sylvia Ann Howland Green Wilks
Rubye Haffer Finger
Ruby Devol Finch
Betsey B. Winslow
Mary B. Montrond
Tryne Costa
Weetamoo
Lillian B. Lamoureux
Amelia Jones
Lillian Lorraine Yonally
Eulalia Mendes
Frances Eliot Gifford
Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard
Sylvia Ann Howland
Noelie Houle
Maria Alves
Rita Lopes
Rosemary S. Tierney
Phebe Hart Mendall
Rebecca L. H. Taber
Alice Virginia Bradford Tobey Jones
Margery V. “Ruby” Dottin
Marie A. Nelson
Zoe Alysse Washington Fabio
Mary Parker Converse
Rosetta Douglass
Elizabeth Leonard
Charlotte White
Sarah R. Delano
Clementina “Tina” Ponte
Anna Elizabeth White
Emma Louise Piper
Sister Aurora Helena Avelar
Theresa Dougall
Pauline Meyer Colyar
Alberta Mae Knox
Rosalind Poll Brooker
Lydia Grinnell Brown
Sue Wong van Wiggeren
Eloise Solomon Pina
Shirley Bernice Cohen
Belmira Nunes

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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