DEDICATED TO

these women, strong in their faith and in nurturing others Mid-wives, nurses, herbalists, healers, mothers, teachers and wise women, lovers, pioneers, adventurers, craftswomen, artists, and musicians in their own right.
Amy Violetta Walters, Hilda May Walkdon Thorpe, The Widow McArthy, Lily Atkinson, Elsie Monique Thorpe, Alice Rebecca O'Neill, Emma Alys Thorpe, Eugenie Borome (later, Hamilton-Hughes), Betty Barbara Cranston, Eunice Ann Woods, and Great-Great Grand Mother Solomon

Lights to the world in their several generations.
"Jewels of the Madonna'