8:30 AM | This event is Private to Friends and Parents of Blue Heron Middle School

Carmelita

A Vindication for the Unwritten: Or How to Write Yourself Back into History

By Ana Maria Campoy

Carmelita Colon

Carmelita was born in Mexico. She and her husband Sebastian settled in Walla Walla in the 1860’s, several years before Susan B. Anthony and Abigail Scott Duniway toured the Pacific Northwest (including Walla Walla) in 1871. Carmelita and Sebastian ran a mule train to the gold mines in Idaho and later sold tamales while operating a restaurant in Walla Walla.  
Suffrage Timeframe: Carmelita’s work and activism were quite early in the Northwest women’s rights/suffrage movement, years before women had — and lost — the vote twice in the 1880’s.

How do you break free from an assigned narrative? Meet Carmelita Colon, determined to do just that, challenging us to re-imagine what it means to reclaim our stories.

A tale of gold rushes, wars, outlaws, and tamale recipes

Historical fiction immerses you in one woman's treacherous and triumphant journey from 1860s Mexico to WA territory.