WMTW-TV titillates with Maine gardeners make nude calendar to raise money:
PORTLAND (AP) -- Some Maine gardening enthusiasts are the latest people to discover that posing in the buff for calendars seems to be the ticket to serious fund-raising.OK, here's two sawbucks, now please keep your duds on!
The McLaughlin Foundation hopes to raise $150,000 to pay off the mortgage of the foundation's historic gardens and homestead in Paris.
The calendar features members in poses with strategically placed wheelbarrows, shovels and other gardening implements.
An extraordinary number of ordinary people are shedding their clothes and posing for calendars to raise money for medical research, elderly programs and other causes. Thousands of the calendars have been published in the past couple of years, raising more than $1.5 million. Many of the subjects were inspired by the British women whose Ladies of Rylstone 2000 calendar featured the women performing household chores in the nude.
