As a young man I visited a friendly but very busy Cynthia Gooding when she was teaching at Princeton. It must have been about 1974. She had been writing novels. Does anyone know if any were ever published or what became of her books or manuscripts? I met her in July-August 1967 when she was on the staff at Pinewoods Folk Music Camp in Buzzards Bay. What a camp week that was! I only went once but it had a very profound effect on me. While living in west Florida I somehow got a work scholarship as a lifeguard thanks to having earned a Senior Lifesaving certificate from Red Cross. Jean Ritchie's boys were the main swimmers that year. May Gadd was up and about, Phillip Merrill (sp?), Tony Saletan and Irene Kossoy were still together, Charlie Chin from NYC impressed me lots, Anne and Frank Warner were there with their sons; John Anthony Scott has just published his folk song book; there's was a beautiful girl from Penn. who seemed like a real goddess, too. Sweet Mary Faith Rhodes played autoharp as did Jean and Irene and Charlie and Tony. It was quite a wonderful time for me. I had lost my money hitchhiking up from DC, left it in someone's car. I had just enough money to fly back to Birmingham ($40. for a night flight standby) but it was stuck down in the the bottom of my perscription sunglasses case which was lost under the back seat of the car of the family who had picked me up in route to Buzzard's Bay. (A year later they found it and sent it to me in Alabama.) A young woman named Diane Lavoie (I think?) gave this penniless folkie a ride to her flat on Marlboro Street in Boston where I camped out for a few days, got a job at a gift shop in Brookline and rented an actual hallway in a basement off of Beacon Street where I slept. Many misadventures later I got sick with kidney stones not knowing what was wrong. All to tell folks: don't try to make a living as a folksinger. I'll bet Cynthia would say the same thing. PS Where is her shrine, memorial, grave, etc?