Is that the famous Breadloaf Writers Conference she directed at Middlebury? That's said to be the very best.

No. This was a local community group. The Breadloaf Conference is operated by real pros - mostly "name" writers.

The folk music significance of the Breadloaf Conference is that I believe it is where "Stoppin by Woods on a Snowy Evening" was first sung to the tune of "Hernando's Hideaway," by a group of the student waiters, when Robert Frost, who lived right near there, was dining there.

Peter.

PS. My dad was Robert Frost's editor for a period of years. When we were kids and staying at Lake Dunmore, he went up to Frost's farm to confer with him and took us to visit. While they were closeted, we got to help with some farm chores, the principal one of which was cleaning up a small donkey that had gotten himself very muddy. At least most of it was mud. Ever since then I have been fond of announcing in literary or poetry gatherings, when people are dropping names, that "I washed Robert Frost's ass once."

P.