"Rosa Walston Latimer is the author of six historical non-fiction books, a playwright and an award-winning photographer. She has written for national and regional magazines and newspapers and was news editor of a print and an online newspaper and supervising director of a nationally syndicated television program. Rosa was the Flower Hill Urban Homestead Museum, Austin, Texas Writer-in-Residence, 2020-2021. The story of her Harvey Girl grandmother sparked her interest in preserving women's history and inspired her to write her first book, Harvey Houses of Texas: Historic Hospitality from the Gulf Coast to the Panhandle followed by Harvey Houses of New Mexico, Harvey Houses of Kansas, and Harvey Houses of Arizona - all published by The History Press. Harvey Houses of Kansas received a 2016 ""Notable Kansas Book"" award and Harvey Houses of Texas was nominated for a Texas Christian University Texas Book Award. Rosa lives in Austin, Texas. RosaLatimer.org The Martin County Convent Foundation, Inc., is a nonprofit group of citizens actively working to preserve and restore this historic site. Their hope is to restore the building to its original appearance as the Carmelite Monastery and open it to the public as an interpretive center on the founding of Stanton and Our Lady of Mercy Academy. The grounds are to be landscaped into a native plant garden."