She performed with her guitar in the dives of Greenwich Village before Bob Dylan and Joan Baez. She looked like a schoolteacher: shoulder-length hair parted to the side, glasses for nearsightedness, and sober, dark-colored dresses with ankle-length hemlines. She was extremely private. A decade ahead of her time as a folk singer-songwriter, her recordings failed to win over audiences, and she left New York disappointed. One day she got in her Volkswagen and disappeared. She had just turned 50. Neither her car nor her body was ever found. Her name is Connie Converse.
The mysterious life of Connie Converse, the brilliant singer who was ignored — and then vanished
