Posted on 06/29/2005 3:22:30 PM PDT by Abathar
FARMLAND, Ind. -- Seven women who usually gather to play cards are planning to strip down for a calendar as part of the fight against plans to tear down Randolph County's 128-year-old courthouse.
The women ranging in age from their early 70s to older than 90 will pose nude -- with strategically placed miniature replicas of the courthouse in front of them -- in the fundraiser for the Save the Courthouse Fund.
"I don't know how we're going to look, but we're going to pose," 85-year-old Garnita Amburn told The Star Press of Muncie for a story Wednesday.
The Randolph County commissioners voted 2-1 on June 6 to demolish the courthouse in downtown Winchester, about 20 miles east of Muncie, and replace it with a new structure.
It would be the first courthouse in the state to be leveled since the 1970s, but the commissioners who favor its replacement say they do not believe it would be wise to spend millions of dollars to renovate the 19th century building.
The calendar is the brainchild of Farmland resident Larry Francer, a vocal opponent of the demolition who helped organize a petition drive that collected more than 4,000 signatures asking the commissioners to reconsider.
"Many of us in the county are stunned the commissioners are not willing to preserve and restore this beautiful old building," he said. "We believe a historic building is like a beautiful woman -- created with love, etched with wonderful memories and a reminder to all who see her ... that the years have only polished her beauty, not diminished it."
Organizers plan to sell the calendars beginning next month for $12.95 each and hope to raise at least $20,000.
The calendar's models are all members of the Farmland Bridge Club in the western Randolph County town.
"We just thought we have great bods so we thought we'd do it," 76-year-old Iraida Davis-Leitch said.
85-year-old Frances Hensley's jaw dropped when she saw sample photographs for the calendar, including a woman holding two miniature courthouses in front of her chest.
"Oh my stars," she said.
still, it must be some courthouse to go to such extremes to raise money to save it.
In the name of God...NO PICTURES!!!
Please don't.
I am Dumbstruck
Oh come on, you can be the first on your block to have that on your fridge when your friends come over, and it will be for a good cause.
Please don't call Janet Reno!
One at the waist; the other at the knees.
The nudity shtik is overexposed. Time to find some other ploy to raise money or protest something. How about a turkey shoot?
It's INDIANA what do you expect. See there is more than corn in INDIANA, but do we need this??
I think these women are overexposed too.
Is it possible for the nudity shtik to be overexposed?
I'm game.
Jeez, man, whatever happened to bake sales?
I admit to having somewhat of a fetish for older women, but not THAT old!
I hereby appeal to Jim Robinson owner, founder, chief viking and lead kitty, to immedietly ban any member who posts a picture. Please Jim, for the love of humanity.
Doncha just hate it when your brand-new calandar is out-of-date before it's even hung on the wall?
At that age, the waist is on the knee....
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