BAF Fades Away

Nancy Talbott took a different direction. She became very interested in crop circles and approached that with the same sort of fanatic devotion she had once accorded bluegrass. Bar says, “I don’t know how she got interested in Crop Circles. She loved the mystery, otherworldly, alien nature of them as well as their incredible beauty and symmetry. She was curious about extraterrestrial life and has always told of an experience of some kind as a young teen in Baltimore. She had a website, BLT Research, now defunct. She talked and collaborated with university researchers as well as astrophysicists. She said once that she always had a strong interest in science, but our mother had discouraged her. She went to Art School instead.”  

“She got a grant from one of the Rockefellers and did a long study. It has not been published but that is her oeuvre.” Decades later, “It’s kind of like bluegrass doesn’t really exist. There’s so much bad feeling.  It’s not all this [BBU]. There was more. She doesn’t talk [about music].”

Nancy traveled to many other countries with that research and her posts – still available on Facebook in 2026 – show a range of interests. 

But not really bluegrass. “It’s kind of like bluegrass doesn’t really exist,” Bar said. “There’s so much bad feeling.”  

Interestingly, Nancy’s occupation for many years was related to music. “She worked for Sarah Caldwell, of the Boston Opera. She was a facilities manager for several years. She was very involved with that, but then she got breast cancer. She eventually won a medical malpractice suit because it wasn’t diagnosed as it should have been. That’s when the crop circles started. She was awarded a lot of money, and she totally indulged in that and left bluegrass behind, and went on with this new interest.”

As the year 2026 commences, Nancy lives in elder housing in East Cambridge. She is not involved with music at all but retains some of her other interests. She did suffer a stroke and as a result her ability to communicate is impaired. In mid-2025, a request by the author to meet with her was not acknowledged and a further attempt in December to engage with her proved fruitless.