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SOUTH PARIS, MAINE -- The Maine folks who brought us the 2003 "Altogether for the Garden" nude calendar to pay the mortgage on a landmark perennial garden destined to become a parking lot are taking it all off again.
Faced with the costs of maintaining the garden property -- the only green space on a commercial strip along busy Route 117 -- and popular demand for another calendar, the nonprofit McLaughlin Foundation Garden and Horticultural Center last week unveiled its 2005 calendar of nude models gardening in "Altogether for the Garden Too."
The foundation believes it is the only coed nude calendar among those that have been done for various causes, many inspired by the Ladies of Rylstone in England who posed in the nude to raise funds for leukemia research. The film "Calendar Girls" chronicled their effort.
"That movie made people better understand what we are doing," said Nancy Hohmann of Norway, the foundation board secretary and a teacher who came up with the original calendar idea in 2003.
The 2005 calendar, still coed and featuring 12 models ranging in age from 36 to 77, was shown last week in the barn of the late Bernard McLaughlin, known as the "dean of Maine gardeners." Autographed versions, 100 in all, will be sold at twice the price.
"It was for a good cause," said Harriet Rudd, 72, of Sumner, a church organist and regular volunteer at the garden, who, as Miss November, wears only shoes as she is concealed by the melodeon she is playing in the garden. She was not sure how her appearance in the buff might go over at her church but decided its members "might find it interesting."
http://www.boston.com/news/local/maine/articles/2004/08/16/gardening_buffs_strike_a_pose_again?mode=PF
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