begin until 12:15 and not a moment before and later if nancy has to run home to check on uncle willie uncle willie'sfavorite special was tuesday spaghetti. nancy also to painted rock on top of the cash register. was a gift from her preschooler nephew jason whom she helped raise. she was not above picking it up presumably and just showed a customer offend her. when i returned from lunch two days after my story ran because red fridays are my favorite nancy shook her finger man was clear i was not getting anything close to a pat on the back. her mother sat nearby peeling potatoes watching the young and the restless and cringing about what her daughter was about to say. nancy had been ready to send me packing the first time i walked in the restaurant inquiring about her uncles but persuaded her to let me stay. a fan in my youth i saw the first episode. i had wanted quickly with dots over the characters who would help peel potatoes and your kitchen much to nancy's chagrin. you know what your story is nancy said? at trot out a bunch of crazy white people, that's all. paying customers some might have added

just remember they are we scum out on top in the end, so uncle willy who is having this-- she believes uncle willys responsible and she thinks that book will do really well because uncle willy is looking out for me. i love that. i hope she's right. [laughter] >> your books are about connecting with people and connecting the past in the presence and this is your advice for young reporters, get away from your damn smart phones and computers. go back to the basics, papers, scissors and real people. be the glue as a great reporter mary bishop once told you connecting stranger to stranger pour only for an instance. can you elaborate on how this has been your mo? >> well, i mean, documents can only take you so far. memoirs written, i mean, that was a great find when i found the guy bragging about buying this. paperwork and take you so far, but there is no substitute for going and meeting people and hearing their stories i mean the best parts of the book, i think, are these a greedy kind of micro- aggressions that these men and women lived with during jim crow, like the little girls were walking to schoo