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CT or The New London Day, but you will get this
sort of insanity:
http://www.theday.com/eng/web/news/re.aspx?re=c2543f1d-19db-44b8-b559-ced0aa1f1e7c
The Good Old Boys at their summer homes at the beach club.
Where's Chuck?
Or, maybe this was his idea, since it is always his topic.
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'Men Of Lyme' Get Down To The Bare Essentials
Prominent citizens sport birthday suits for calendar project
Buy this Photo Jeff Evans
Steven Mattson,left, signs copies of the soon-to-be-released "Men of
Lyme 2006" calendar at a gathering of the men who modeled for the
calendar Wednesday at the Old Lyme Beach Club. Funds raised from their
sale will go to Lyme Compact, a nonprofit organization working toward
providing affordable housing in Lyme.
Steven Mattson, 50, required the cooperation of his Samoyed sled dog,
Lilly, to maintain his modesty.
Former state Rep. Jack Tiffany had to wait until late in life to become
a cover boy.
By JENNA CHO
Day Staff Writer, Lyme/Old Lyme
Published on 8/18/2005
Lyme- Oh, my.
If there ever was any wonder as to what Jack Tiffany looks like without
any clothes on, well, there is he is, one of 13 Lyme men posing naked
behind strategically placed props for a calendar that is sure to be one
of the hottest attractions at this year's Hamburg Fair.
The Men of Lyme calendar is a fund-raising effort for Lyme Compact, a
nonprofit affordable-housing organization. The 2006 calendars will go
on sale Friday.
Call the props saving graces. Steven Mattson, 50, calls his
"Lilly," as in his white Samoyed sled dog, grinning happily for the
camera. The town selectman, meanwhile, is sprawled over a stone wall he
built by his house on Hamburg Road, leaning on his left elbow with
nothing on but his watch, socks and boots.
"Those rocks were very cold when I sat down," he said Wednesday at
a party celebrating the efforts of those who worked on the calendar .
"Just glad I lost 45 pounds before the picture was taken," Mattson
said.
On Wednesday several of the 13 men showed up to autograph their photos.
Some of the autographed copies will be presented as gifts to the
compact's biggest supporters, while 50 will be sold for $100 each. The
rest will sell for $15 apiece. The compact printed 2,000 calendars and
hopes to raise $25,000.
Compact Chairwoman Tina West said she came up with the idea for a Lyme
calendar , a la "Calendar Girls," after seeing a similar one in
Tamworth, N.H. Until now, the identities of the calendar men have been
kept a secret, or as secret as can be in a small town where the
featured men are town officials, prominent figures and people with
strong ties to the town.
Lyme resident and writer Dominick Dunne wrote in a recent issue of
Vanity Fair magazine that he had agreed to pose for the calendar, until
he realized the photographs were not exactly snapshots of the
holiday-greeting kind.
Board of Finance Chairman Gary Reynolds, a member of the Lyme Fire
Company, is featured for July, sitting atop a 1932 Seagrave fire pumper
that has won several state competitions for antique motorized fire
apparatus. The props and settings in the photographs reflect the
individuals being photographed, and Reynolds' affinity for the pumper
is clear to anyone who knows him.
"Reynolds looks like he's stealing the truck" in the photo, compact
president and former First Selectman Ralph Eno, said Wednesday.
For February, Eno stands legs apart, holding a chainsaw before a pile
of chopped wood.
The black-and-white calendar photos were shot by Bob Patterson and the
calendar was designed by Jonathan Rickard.
The Men of Lyme present at Wednesday's event said the calendar is for a
good cause and they hoped it would give the compact more visibility.
None of them had seen the final product until Wednesday, but they
appeared to bond over the fact that they all knew what it was like to
pose vulnerably behind props that could at any moment shift a little to
the left, a little to the right, or in Mattson's case, run away.
Some men posing for the calendar got an advance peek at what life will
be like when people start recognizing their faces, and more, at the
Hamburg Fair.
March man Mark Wayland, of Mark Wayland Custom Carpentry, was
photographed on the job, building a house on Mount Archer Road.
Although the final product shows Wayland, 37, holding a plank in front
of himself, he said he didn't initially realize he had to pose nude.
Wayland's crew would not let him be photographed in peace.
"They were like climbing all over the attic trying to take pictures
of me," said Wayland. He said his crew took pictures mostly from
behind, resulting in somewhat more revealing images than the one
running in the calendar.
Jim Thach, featured in May, said that when Eno approached him about the
calendar, "I thought for a moment or two and said if it'll help raise
money, sure, I'll do it."
In his picture, Thach, 68, is seated on the deck of his house on
Mitchell Hill Road, the Connecticut River in the background. Thach's
prop is a Friendship Sloop model boat, in a style circa 1895, that he
recently built. Thach looks content, at leisure, as if he sat out on
his deck in the nude with his model boats every day.
But Thach asserted he did not.
"Never had a career as a male stripper," he said.
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