You may know what this is, I will give you a moment..............................................................................
I was listening to "In between two tall mountains" a song - the fifties by Elizabeth Converse, later known as Connie. Intriguing story, raised by strict religious Mother and father steeped in churchiness, her father wrote ( sermons I assume) - her mother directed church music.
Connie was super smart! Valedictorian with eight scholastic achievement scholarships.
She settled on Holyoke , studied writing, where she acquired her nick name, "Connie".
She dropped out second term due to boredom I think, and the possibility of making it big in the music industry. From there she was encouraged to go to NYC to try her hand at writing/singing music. The producer loved her, her voice is wonky and unusual, her lyrics sublime poetry, but she was just too weird for the times. 50 years later, she has a huge following, I played her CD in the studio so many times I tired of it and gave it away in my basket of music that weighed about as much as a five year old. But, If I need a Connie Converse fix there is always the internet. I probably have blogged Connie before, I am a fan, sorry.
Connie was certainly ahead of her time, never married, went from NYC to California, To Europe and England , but the final straw was going to Alaska with her Mother. her mental health had always been fragile, a depressive, but the trip with Mom did it- she packed up her VW bug, sent notes to her family that she was off to a new start , no body would ever find her. she just vanished.
Her brother reckons that she committed suicide hurling her VW off a high bridge into a deep deep lake, somewhere in the Dakotas - never to be seen again.
She would be 94 today, or yesterday, this year sometime.
But she and her VW vanished.No party today.
Mysterious, not an everyday woman- not an everyday story.
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