NJ Author Feather Schwartz Foster to Speak at Middlesex County Cultural & Heritage Commission Program

SCOTCH PLAINS, NJ – New Jersey author Feather Schwartz Foster will be the guest speaker at a Mother’s Day program at 2 PM, Sunday, April 30, 2006, at the East Jersey Olde Towne Village in Piscataway, NJ. The program is sponsored by the Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission. A book signing will follow.

Feather Schwartz Foster is the author of “LADIES: A Conjecture of Personalities,” which according to the author, “is a book of voices. In it, First Ladies between Martha Washington and Mamie Eisenhower tell their own stories – or, to be more exact, whatever they want – in their own words and in their own styles. It crosses boundaries between fact, conjecture and, most importantly, centuries. Through dialogue-boxes, the Ladies talk to each other across Eternity, where anything is possible. The Modern First Ladies, from Mrs. Kennedy through Mrs. Clinton participate in commentary. “The old gals talk to the reader and they talk amongst themselves. They talk about their husbands, and their children, and the White House, and the times they lived in. And, of course, politics

The program for the Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission will focus on three particular First Ladies – the ones who had small children in the White House: Mary Todd Lincoln, Frances Folsom Cleveland and Edith Carow Roosevelt. There will be plenty of time for questions and answers.

Author Feather Schwartz Foster has been an “amateur” presidential historian (non-academic) for three decades. Following a long career in advertising and having written a score of children’s musical shows, she has decided to draw on her thousand-volume personal presidential library and her love of history by penning “LADIES: A Conjecture….” Her second novel, “Garfield’s Train” was recently published and deals with President James Garfield’s death in Long Branch, in 1881.

The meeting is free and open to the public. East Jersey Olde Towne Village is located at 1050 River Road, Piscataway. For more information, contact the author at www.featherfoster.com.