Amy Connellan, encountered in an antique store in Vermont, reports on her father, Leo Connellan, ex-poet laureate of Connecticut, ex-travelling salesman, ex-college English professor, buried in Franklin, Connecticut, which is southeast of Hartford.

A recording of his reading of his poem Crossing America is available at http://www.hoobellatoo.org/. Actually, it's available from http://www.skuntry.com/, which has a whole order process which asks you to FAX the order, then mail a check to Wayne, New Jersey. The site emails you back before you send the FAX. All very interesting, well worth going through the process. The hoobellatoo ("beautiful people") site seems well worth wandering through in and of itself.