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I Am Baybie
I Am Baybie
I Am Baybie
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Nadine Hoover was sighted at birth and blinded by the drunken doctor bringing her into the world. The daughter she had herself as a teenager by a foster father who raped her became her greatest friend and comfort and Nadine kept her close until she died. Nadine renamed herself “Baybie” when she and her friend Virginia Brown moved to the streets of New York City where, she became a licensed minister and founded her church in an abandoned apartment in Brooklyn.
If you lived in Manhattan and ever shopped at Bloomingdale’s in the late 60’s and early 70s, you met Baybie and Virginia singing there by the main entrance.

I was born sighted but then was blinded by the drunken doctor who gave birth to me.
I was raped by my foster father, and lied to when my little girl was born. She was sold for adoption without anyone asking me.
When I had an abortion a few years later, the doctor told me he did me a favor by removing my ovaries, but he never asked me.
The Lighthouse called us mendicants and wanted us to learn crafts, but we’re working women -- buskers. We work for our living.
I am the Reverend Baybie Hoover. I can sing for eight hours and never repeat a song. This is Ginger Brown, my Deaconess of Music. You are welcome to come to our little church.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherBill Schubart
Release dateApr 10, 2020
ISBN9780989712118
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Bill Schubart

Bill Schubart has lived with his family in Vermont since 1947. Educated locally and at Exeter, Kenyon, and the University of Vermont. He is fluent in French language and culture, which he taught before entering communications as an entrepreneur. He co-founded Philo Records and is the author of the highly successful Lamoille Stories (2008), a collection of Vermont tales. His bibliography includes three short story collections and four novels. His latest novel Lila & Theron is distributed by Simon and Schuster recently won a Benjamin Franklin Silver Award at the Independent Book Publishers for popular fiction. He has served on many boards and currently chairs the Vermont College of Fine Arts, known for its writing programs. He speaks extensively on the media and the arts, and writes about Vermont in fiction, humor, and opinion pieces. He is also a regular public radio commentator and blogger. He is the great, great nephew of the renowned photographer Alfred Stieglitz and lives in Vermont, with his wife Katherine, also a writer.Bibliography:The Lamoille Stories: Uncle Benoit’s Wake (short stories)Fat People (short stories)Panhead: A Journey Home (novel)I am Baybie: Based on the true Story of the Rev. Baybie Hoover and her friend Virginia Brown (novel)http://www.IAmBaybie.com offers readers a gallery of images of the two women and a live sampling of songs they sang on the street.Photographic Memory (novel)The Lamoille Stories II (short stories)Lila & Theron (novel) (published by Charles Michael Pub., Dist. by Simon & Schuster)

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