Posted on 06/12/2007 10:56:04 AM PDT by John Cena
AP) GREENSBORO, Pa. Giving sultry looks and sexy smiles to the camera, 12 Pittsburgh-area women recently posed at Monongahela historical sites, baring it all -- or almost all -- to create a charity-driven calendar. The catch?
The nearly nude ladies are all in their 70s and 80s, driven to adventure by a desire to raise money for a historical society in Monongahela, a small community 17 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.
Overcoming fears the priest would walk by during a photo shoot or embarrassing their children and grandchildren, the women -- all well-known members of the tight-knit community -- are now eagerly awaiting the calendar's debut next month. The money it generates will go to the Monongahela Area Historical Society.
"One of the advantages of being old is that you can do anything you want and get away with it," said 80-year-old Lois Phillips, who as Miss September was photographed in the back seat of a 1968 Mercury convertible.
The calendar was the brainchild of 80-year-old Lorys Crisafulli. She came up with the idea when she saw the movie Calendar Girls, a 2003 flick starring Helen Mirren in which a group of British women publish a nude calendar to raise money for cancer research.
"I thought, why don't we do that in Monongahela?" she told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. "We need something to put us on the map, to get us going."
Crisafulli spent the next few weeks finding sponsors, a free photographer and an eager group of septuagenarians and octogenarians with enough spunk to show some flesh.
A former 5th grade teacher, Crisafulli is about to become better known as Miss January, who lounges in a black convertible covered in pearls, holding a champagne glass in one hand and dangling slinky sandals from the other.
Some of the other photos are more risque.
Miss April, Esther Cox, poses in a pasture, nothing but a pink umbrella covering her 75-year-old body. Miss December, Sondra Odelli Bordini, gives a sultry glance from behind a poinsettia centerpiece with two strategically placed red Christmas balls.
The Girls of Gravity 2007.
Yuck!
I think they watched “Calendar Girls” one too many times.
Happening all over the place. http://www.grangecalendar.com/
OK, I’m a size 4/6 at age 50 and there is no way in *&%$ I would do that!!!
I agree. Maybe someone can explain to me why SOME women have this need to display their wares? Wow.? I once had an acquaintance who, along with some other members of our group, wanted to thank our male friends for a kindness they had shown to us. Her response was....”lets do a strip show for them!”
Seems to me to be a sign of dysfunction or crassness.
Rules are rules. Where are the photos, guys?
I blame Viagra.
Actually, I admire their spunk. Hope it raises a lot of money for them. :o)
THIS THREAD IS WORTHLESS WITHO........uh, nevermind...........
Do we really want freepers gouging out their own eyes?
NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
What is is with liberals and public nudity? The uglier they are, the more they want to push it on us.
“Maybe someone can explain to me why SOME women have this need to display their wares?”
Nature.
The more women I’m around around the more I think most women are exhibitionists.
Me, too. As much money as we spend on ourselves, some are prolly kinda okay-looking!
A little Photoshop may help.
Filter/blur/gaussian blur/radius 100.0px
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