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Paul Cubeta, the director of the Breadloaf program then, says Marius' decision to hire Wesel on the spot was unusual. It was even stranger when one considers that Marius did not ask Cubeta for Wesel's resume or references, which Cubeta had on hand...
Wesel was a fifth grade teacher in Homer, Alaska, when she met Marius at the Breadloaf summer conference for teachers of writing at Middlebury College in Vermont in 1982. Wesel says Marius offered her a job that summer less than an hour after meeting...
Junior Albert Leger nabbed 21st place in the men's cross country competition at the Eastern Championships held this weekend at Breadloaf...
John Irving [Aug. 31] is not only a masterly writer, he is a master teacher as well. At a Breadloaf workshop, he read a scathing review of one of his own novels before criticizing the manuscripts of aspiring writers and, probing the air with his hand, which curved like a bear's paw, he exhorted writers to teach something, to make the story yield a potent statement and to fight for issues with "generous anger," out in the open, like Dickens...
...when in 1940 it became necessary to eat outdoors at Frost's Ripton, Vt, farm because he had installed a tribe of 100 baby chicks in his kitchen. Eventually a way of life worked itself out: Frost allowed Kathleen Morrison and her husband (then director of the Breadloaf Writers Conference) to live summers in the Ripton farmhouse while the poet moved to a nearby cabin during the warm months. She cooked his meals, handled his correspondence, and provided massive daily doses of stability...