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Vincent and I: A lifelong passion.
A 1) It begins here. I take a photograph of the small gravestone: ‘Vincent van Gogh, 1852’. It is by the door of the Dutch Reform church in Groot-Zundert, a few hundred yards from the house where he was born. When the film is developed, this frame alone is blank, consumed in an explosion of…
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Connie Converse’s disappearance on 10 August, 1974
‘You don’t go out of your way to make yourself something you’re not.’ After her return from England in January 1972, Ms Converse was adrift. She wrote, ‘the basic nerves and will by which I had always been able to survive my difficulties may have worn out or broken, and might not be easily reparable.’…
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Connie Converse’s 100th birthday
Between 1 August, the 100th anniversary of her birth, and 10 August, when fifty years ago she disappeared, I want to celebrate the many lives of Elizabeth Connie Converse. In 1944, age 20, she dropped out of her prestigious New England college, where she was the star student, and went to New York City, alone…
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Connie Converse: A Singer/Songwriter before her Time
100 years after she was born, 50 years since she disappeared without trace (10th Aug, 1974), I am celebrating The Guitar Songs of Connie Converse. Written between 1950 and 1955, in New York, and unheard until 2009, I first heard them three months ago and have been playing them since, finding new qualities with each…
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Keith Walton’s Website
All my writing that I want to be public
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First Post …
After my last website went down – lost in a broadband changeover – I recovered my archive and have made it available via the dropdown menus, above. My next project is ‘A Serpentine Walk along the Paris Meridian‘, which I will post here.
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