FREDONIA – An Internationally acclaimed performer and recording artist will be coming to Chautauqua County next month. Singer and entertainer Vanessa Williams and her mother, Helen Tinch Williams, will appear on SUNY Fredonia’s campus Saturday, Nov. 10 at 2 p.m. The two have recently co-authored a collective autobiography, “You Have No Idea,” that characterizes the enduring relationship that aided Vanessa through a series of challenges, which arose after she was crowned the first African-American Miss America in 1983.
Helen Tinch Williams is a member of the SUNY Fredonia Class of 1960.
The book also includes Helen’s reflections of SUNY Fredonia, where the Buffalo native began at the age of 16 as a freshman Music Education major, including how she met her late husband, Milton Williams, a member of the Class of 1957 and with whom she had 45 years of marriage.
The free event will be held in Diers Recital Hall on the Fredonia campus, although tickets are required due to space constraints. For tickets, visit www.fredonia.edu/tickets.
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