Recognition of the Grey Nuns of Lewiston

The book recognizes the achievements by a nineteenth-century community of women religious, the Grey Nuns of Lewiston, Maine.

The founding of their hospital was significant in its time as the first hospital in that factory city; and is significant today if one desires a more accurate and inclusive history of women and healthcare in America.

The fact that this community lived in a hostile, Protestant-dominated, industrial environment while submerged in a French-Canadian Catholic world of ethnicity, tradition and paternalism makes their accomplishments more compelling.