This sounds great. I will be willing to do the photography (I have spent 50 of my 55 years behind a camera). Please call or email Tim Turner 317-416-8289 (cell) or [email protected] and we can get together to make this happen. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rhonda Stoffer" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 7:56 AM Subject: [INPCRP] A novel way to raise money for a cemetery > Got this from a National Genealogy Society newsletter. Any one want to do > a > calendar for INPCRP? > > > Oakwood Cemetery Fundraiser is All an Illusion > > Posing with a Civil War saber beside the grave of Gen. George Thomas, the > only > Union general in the Civil War never to lose a battle, retired Army Col. > Charles > Johnson, 72, appears to be wearing nothing but his Army boots, a World War > II > helmet and a Vietnam-era backpack. > > The photo of Johnson, vice president of the Oakwood Cemetery board of > trustees, > plus photographs of other "seemingly n*ked" board members and prominent > residents of the community were used to create an inventive fundraiser. > > Founded in 1848, the Oakwood Cemetery covers more than 600 acres of > protected > land overlooking the city of Troy in upstate New York. It is one of the > largest > rural cemeteries in America and contains four man-made lakes, extensive > lawns, > two residential structures, two chapels, twenty-four mausoleums, and > monuments > and statuary for nearly 60,000 gravesites, with over half the gravesites > filled > in the 19th century. > > Although the historical value of the Oakwood Cemetery is tremendous, so > are > the > maintenance bills. To help raise funds for repairs, the Oakwood Cemetery > board > of trustees decided to take a few risks and produce the "Cemetery > Illusions > Calendar 2005." Selling for $14.95 the calendar is carefully designed to > create > a dignified illusion of n*de models taking part in tea parties and other > activities among the tombstones and cemetery structures. But it's all an > illusion. > > "They look n*ked, but they were told to put on Speedo bathing suits," said > Terry > Page, president of the Oakwood Cemetery board of trustees. "That's why > it's > called 'Cemetery Illusions.' " > > To view a slide show and/or narrated video clip showing several scenes > from > the > calendar and discussing its purpose, visit > http://www.nbc10.com/news/3767302/detail.html > > "Cemetery Illusions Calendar 2005 is available on the Internet at > http://www.oakwoodcemetery.org/calendar.htm > > To learn more about Oakwood Cemetery's history, the many things that can > be > learned by visiting it, and the need to protect and preserve it for all > time, > read "Listening to Oakwood" at > http://members.aol.com/oakwoodcem/nielser.htm > > Contributed by Carla Ridenour, [email protected] > > Note: An * replaces specific letters in this article so that UpFront won't > be > nabbed by junk mail filters. > > > > > > Rhonda Stoffer > Head of Indiana History and Genealogy Services > Marion Public Library > > > > ==== INPCRP Mailing List ==== > To UNSUBSCRIBE, send message consisting only of > "UNSUBSCRIBE" to [email protected] > or to [email protected] (for DIGEST version) > >