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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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Florence Eastman
Ellen Kempton
Charlotte White
Mabel Knipe
Rosamond Guinn
Maria (Maja) Capek
Mary Parker Converse
Sister Aurora Helena Avelar
Loretta Bourque
Helen Elizabeth Ellis
Sister Rosellen Gallogly
Lillian B. Lamoureux
Suzanne Marjorie Stockard Underwood
Mary B. H. Ransom
Amelia Jones
Alberta Simmons Brownell
Dineia Sylvia
Consuelo M. Sousa
Sara Ann Delano
Mary Hall Leonard
Elizabeth Taber
Mary Elizabeth Hartley
Ida M. Eliot
Marial M. Harper
Rita Lopes
Pauline Meyer Colyar
Mary Hudson Onley
Eliza Bierstadt
Martha Bush Gray
Cordelia Vien
Laura Keene
Cornelia Grinnell
Marie Equi
Laurinda C. Andrade
Phebe Hart Mendall
Mary Ann Flanagan Hayden
Mary Rotch
Eleanor W. Morton
Mary Ann Hathaway Tripp
Aurélia Benoît Lebeau
Sarah R. Delano
Valentina Almeida
Annie Holmes Ricketson
Sarah D. Ottiwell
Emma Hall
Deborah Weston
Josephine Teixeira
Harriet Didriksen
Rachel Howland
Belmira Nunes
Emily Howland Bourne
Sylvia Ann Howland Green Wilks
Rubye Haffer Finger
Mary Ricketson Bullard
Gratia Montgomery
Elizabeth Payson Prentiss
Elizabeth Terry Delano
Ora Inge Maxim
Mary Stanley
Sylvia Finger
Jane C. Waters
Archangela Fortes
Clementina “Tina” Ponte
Mary J. “Polly” Johnson
Lillian Ross
Hetty Green
Cecil Clark Davis
Minna Littmann
Carol Haney
Alice Virginia Bradford Tobey Jones
Rebecca L. H. Taber
Marian Shaw Smith
Frances Eliot Gifford
Rosetta Douglass
Ruth S. Atkinson
Sue Wong van Wiggeren
Sarah Rotch Arnold
Hope Atkinson
Nora Ouimette Duprey
Maria Alves
Lydia Grinnell Brown
Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence
Helen Worthing Webster
Emily Noyes Vanderpoel
Ora M. DeJesus
Ada Woolley Sullivan
Harriet Jacobs
Shirley Bernice Cohen
Kathleen Comiskey Roberts
Lillian Lorraine Yonally
Geraldine Gomes
Anna Murray Douglass
Flora B. Peirce
Helena de Kay Gilder
Mary B. Montrond
Rosalind Poll Brooker
Alice Howland Macomber
Awashonks
Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard
Emma Louise Piper

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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