A mysterious and deeply fascinating figure, early folksinger/songwriter Connie Converse pursued her music in obscurity before vanishing completely from the face of the earth. Converse was born Elizabeth Eaton Converse in Laconia, New Hampshire in 1924. In her twenties she dropped out of college and landed in New York City, where she began writing and recording her own songs, often plaintively beautiful storytelling folk songs recorded in her small apartment or by friends. Over the next several years her only public appearance would be a chance performance in 1954 on television...