Write Long and Beautiful Letters: The Vallejos' Californio Correspondence, 1846-1888
Schedule
Sun Oct 06 2024 at 05:00 pm to 07:00 pm
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20 4th St, Petaluma, CA, United States, California 94952 | Petaluma, CA
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The experiences of Mexicans who were living in California when it was annexed by the United States is a crucial element in our state's past. These Californios, as they called themselves, made California's identity diverse and multi-cultural from the moment it became part of the United States. The Vallejos were one of the most prominent of these Californio families.Authors Rose Marie Beebe and Robert Senkewicz illuminate the life of the Vallejo family and the19th century Californio experience, using more than 180 letters that Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo and Francisca Benicia Carrillo de Vallejo exchanged with each other between 1846 and 1888, and the scores of letters that one or both of them exchanged with their children.
These letters offer an intimate glimpse of the ways in which this family, and many Californio families like them, struggled to adapt to the political, social, and cultural changes that were occurring around them, especially when they found themselves strangers in the land in which they had been born.
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