hello everyone and welcome to the place to sew or i'm anita was so your host and as always our model is a step out and redesigned and the focus is always on you as usual i have a really really special treat from you you rather this is a woman that i met i guess about a year or so ago and an author of a vent that i had intended her name is cindy williams newsome as it got a really really interesting story that things are seeing writes about in all of that so city florida but was raised in a section of of new york bridgewater which is also known as house down yes i'm sorry i said new york bridgewater new jersey which is also known as hobbes town right  cindy's love of writing began as a youngster but bloomed as a member of a girl singing group in the late one nine hundred sixty so i want to hear more about that she holds a bag so far as the green english from cadwal college and a business degree from raritan valley college she is the winner of a historical preservation a war nine hundred ninety two thousand and six from the cultural and heritage commission of somerset county for her first book sound the forgotten legacy of an african american community the vang girl released in november of two thousand and eleven is her sophomore at work and her first entry into the john of inspirational romance frightening that sounds exciting it is a story of a family journey for forgiveness for a dumb sense and unconditional love she says a love of writing both history and inspirational romance and has published in spirituality and health magazine her next work will be a history project reflecting baseball in bridgewater and surrounding areas inspired by her late brother so i'm really interested in hearing about that she's an avid reader and her favorite books are the pride and prejudice and angeles asses she also loves treasure shopping and providing inspiration to the young and elderly so a lot of cindy thank you so much anita and i'm so grateful for the opportunity to be with you and me looking forward to speaking with you about some of these things that i'm doing in this juncture of my life and so right now  thing that i'm doing is i'm i've started writing as you mentioned in my bio it was a it's a book it's about baseball in bridgewater but prior to me doing that i want to go back to how i started in with the community and that sort of thing you know i wrote my first book hobbes town the forgotten legacy of a unique african american community that came out in two thousand and six and the way that it came about was i was always in maine or the as a as a young child with the place that i grew up in because it was the only african american community within  our all euro environment and so the schools and everything that we did was you know a mixed community you know but the only avenue that we had to be with jest so it was it was really interesting and hot sounds settle back in one nine hundred twenty one by ravening most hogs he came up from the south came to the know of this is during the great migration of course during that time in one nine hundred twenty one and i tell you the way the town was settled he was the first african american to be in that area to build a home there and then he brought other folks with him from the south so that's how my dad came up around fifteen or so and so we you know we settled there and i was a baby at that time so i i don't know anything really about florida ok my actual birthplace i consider myself a jersey girl yes and so i learned about community through that whole experience of being with those those elders those women of that time back in the fifty's in the sixty's i'm telling you it was such a good community there and i think about it today did that community go from very interested in our communities being together and trying to bring back some of that community involvement that we had back in that time and i know it's a different time period but when i look at the way things are now it's it's almost like we we live separate lives from each other  and and i'm i guess i'm a dreamer and i hope one day that it will change and i will be valid to that community the way we used to do things together as a so tell me some of the really remarkable things that you remember about growing up in homes down i was a little girl just being in this town yes as a little girl there was always this feeling like you were sheltered those about twenty thousand families  in the town that came you know that eventually came to be about twenty two families there and always big families ten children per family that was probably the average and we knew  everybody you could go from house to house our moms our dads knew everybody and they were quite entrepreneur all to anything that you needed somebody in the town to perhaps do it for you we weren't that far from the town of summer bill remarkable things to me were the way that the women kind of banded together when a woman would be pregnant when she would give birth to her child they would come over they would wash clothes they would cook the meal you know make sure the kids were doing good you know just that kind of things and it was a family atmosphere and that was one of the things that then we would also when i was growing up and i got into my teen years it was like there was always just such fun and hard sound people would come from miles people will come from new york to come to hobbs town for the parties that would last from a friday night through sunday and so we you know we got to be there for some of that and of course we were in school so you know on sunday night it was like you know time to get back to where i get ready for study but they would have these barbecues and there again it was for the familiar things that people always coming from everywhere to take part so those were some of the things that i thought were were great about growing up in her town so do you you still have family there are still have family here my brother and his wife actually still live in hearts town ok they're in one of the homestead the original homestead that was there ye only some of the things that you wrote about in your book i have in my book about sound i write about some of the adversity that new experience so i write about that but i also write about  when me and my sister we were part of a girl group myself so you know i know i'm here and i know there's a chapter about that and we were friends with another family the murdoch family and they had there were two daughters that we were friends with and so we put the four of us formed a group and so you know we used to go all over the same thing and you know i was the oldest and you know then the other three will be younger than me and later on one by the know we just had we had fun it was it was really nice we always had a chaperone with us and we had a manager you know of course the dream was to be like the supreme of course i'm not so that that never ha but i love historical writing but i also like inspirational writing inspirational romance and so after i got done with hobbes town you know when you're writing history it takes lot of you yes this takes a lot and there are certain dynamics that you have to really be careful about certain things that you you know write about you have to really pay a lot of attention you know i'm not saying that you don't because not with the with fiction but it's just a little bit more intense when you're writing non fiction i would think especially because you're referencing certain people career and  about the cover so the name girl yes the vein girl is about a family's journey in forgiveness redemption and forgiveness this family they had every kind of lots of issues going on and the young girl she had in her and her life she had experienced what she thought was true love and then something happened and it actually was not so but her her father there was also something within it within the book within the family that's a generational curse what they think of it as a generational curse and so she has issues with that and it's been something in the family for a very long time and she is determined in the in that she's going to break that she's going to be different and  so that's basically what the story's about and there are a lot of other dynamics with the family that are involved the mother has some issues the father has some issues and but so after that you know i took a little breather he was very very loved baseball little be all the way a pony we semi pro baseball he played all of that and so he  but so he wanted to write about his experiences and you know all of that and so like i said he gave me what was not it was an outline and then maybe a couple of chapters but through that outline i could see where he was going with his work and so unfortunately he passed away in two thousand and eight and did not finish the work so i said oh you know this is i really i knew that was his dream to get that work out there and so i decided that i would pick up the mantle and examiner have to review those is my tribute to my dedication to my dear brother wonderful yeah he was a wonderful brother he had a heart of gold mom his love of jackie robinson and the whole you know break in the barrier has been the first african american to you know break that barrier and become a major league player and  about all the things that were going on in a town like the little league and not just with my brother but i interviewed a lot of different people who were involved at that time as players and in somerville which was a town that was not far from the bridgewater area and so i interviewed quite a few people there and so i'm putting that all together and i know you have a great interest in baseball also yeah yeah yeah my i have a brother he's about five four or five years younger than me ok and when we were growing up that was his passion and he initially thought that he wanted to go on that over to go to the the baseball game and i remember him begging me not to tell our but hurt me because i didn't want to get in trouble but he got injured and he sustained an injury playing baseball being a kid he didn't tell grandfather built us all play for a very short period of time oh ok waves as well i so when you when i talk to you and you said you were writing a book on baseball i kind of lit up yet oh that's really interesting exciting so because media had no he said the homesick rays because i know that we had well actually they were out of newark but it was in newark dodgers the new law when the rules cuban i can't think of the last name a cuban to that they were they were in newark as jackie robinson was like his number one and he would even he had something in his manuscript about you know what we jackie do when he was white thinking about a play because my brother was a picture and but he would think about that person are they gonna are they going to try to slide are they going to try to you know like a jackie o you know that or that sort of thing you know so he he really he he really adored the game and he had a lot of integrity for the game and a lot of integrity for those that played the game before him you know he he really researched and then my little my grandson who is nine years old his name is caleb he's like all around sports person he does seem he plays soccer for a while he plays basketball he plays baseball and so he's he's just busy you know i have an eight year old grandson and that sounds very because he was arguably one of the greatest pitcher is ever yeah absolutely there is there's a lot of history there a lot of good history so when there's a book supposed to come out when we have a sentence we're looking web site as well i do not have my own website or at one time i did have my own website but then something happened i don't know if it can i i don't know whether it was a virus or something how it had to be taken down  you know i'm a writer but i'm also i'm also a i have a servant's heart and ca like my brother the one that passed away i worked in in my church life have been a pastoral care worker for many years i also am a hospice worker so i had to kind of i stepped away for a little bit but i'm on call with that now  because i have gotten really back into my writing and i have to stay focused so but that's kind of thing that i do and i you know i'm looking i  really am looking to mentor more about the spirituality that the lord has given to me so that's one of the things that i'm doing in the lord is he's so what is that last nugget of information that you would like to share with the audience i would like to share with the audience said everyone has a kids and we have to use those years we want to deposit some things in the earth that's going to be good that's going to help someone and for generations to come because when we're when we're not here anymore just like with my books somebody can pick up my book and read about hobbes town and say oh you know that there's this little place called have found you know i'm not here but my book is here so i want you to call out the names of all also one more time for our audience because i definitely want them to go on sort of amazon and barnes and noble and pick up some copies or your book i'll be happy to this is hard found the forgotten legacy of the unique african american community and this is the second edition by the same name hot sound against and this one is the vein girl and so those of my three books my upcoming book is ten tentatively titled chasing baseball for little the two major league baseball oh excellent so will you be doing something to officially introduce the book oh absolutely ok good thank you so much for having me my pleasure my pleasure and i want to thank you for even reaching out to me because you are officially the very first person who ever reached out to me and asked can i be on your show so i really really glad i was like a historical moment one show they'll be more times absolutely ok so you've heard from this wonderful woman cindy williams knew some make sure you go on amazon and go on a barnes and noble look at a book or her book e you in person and get a signed copy of your book so thank you very much for joining us and i'll see you next time but by