Bread loaf

Bread loaf
View of the campus from Bread Loaf
Location in Vermont
Bread loaf
Basic data
Foundation :	April 13, 1781
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Addison County
Coordinates :	43 ° 57 ′  N , 73 ° 0 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 57 ′  N , 73 ° 0 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	588 (as of 2010)
Height :	438 m
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-08125
GNIS ID :	1460655
Website :	www.RiptonVT.org

Bread Loaf is an unincorporated community in the town of Ripton in Addison County , Vermont in the United States . Bread Loaf is part of the Middlebury College campus . The Bread Loaf post office has closed.

The town of Ripton has a population of 588 (according to the 2010 census). The Bread Loaf settlement area around the Bread Loaf Inn was bequeathed to Middlebury College in 1915 by Joseph Battell, a Middlebury businessman. In 1919, the college established the Bread Loaf School of English here . It offers graduate education in English and American Literature, Public Speaking, Creative Writing, and English in Teacher Education. It is a summer school and started the first summer campus in 1920. Around 250 students live on campus during this time.

Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Frost was closely involved in upgrading the summer school. He worked on it for the first time in 1921 and came regularly for the next 42 years to give courses.

The Bread Loaf Inn is used as a cafeteria.

Web links

Commons : Bread Loaf  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Middlebury College homepage for Campus Bread Loaf (English)
• Entry on VirtualVermont about Ripton and Bread Loaf (English) ( Memento from October 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bread Loaf in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed July 30, 2017
2. ^ Bread Loaf VT post office in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey
3. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
4. ↑ Bread Loaf's History | Middlebury . In: Middlebury . ( middlebury.edu ).
5. ↑ Vermont | Middlebury . In: Middlebury . ( middlebury.edu ).