And the winner: A this year's winner is Ms Thompson in Rockingham County, Virginia. (She had labeled her ticket "G-T"). All of the LOSING tickets were destroyed. We believe in privacy --no contact information will be used for junk mail or phone calls! Ticket sale direct revenue was $3779. Thanks to everyone who supported us, hosted us, or helped run a raffle table! Partial or (we hope) full business "matching gift" negotiations are pending. Of the three dozen leading local business we have contacted, so far Pilgrim's Pride Corporation and Luray's Wal-Mart have shown community spirit by pledging partial support. The raffle total proceeds jump up to $4129 so far when we count the business gifts tallied so far. It's not too late for other businesses to chip in. Thank you artist P. Buckley Moss for another contribution of artwork for the good of the community! According to the P.Buckley Moss Society website, "through Pat's generosity, the (P.Buckley Moss) Society has been directly responsible for raising (nationwide) over $2,513,000 for charity*." For vital assistance thank you Lance Allen, Malcom Henderson, Corrado Gabellieri, Bonnie Stump, Donovan's Framery, Doris Brown, and the P.Buckley Moss Museum day staff. * Quote source: http://www.mosssociety.org/charity-print/ Some "bests" and stats of the October Fundraising Raffle: Longest commute to the ticket table site by Raffle Volunteers: Dave and June Munro --Tidewater VA (on the Atlantic coast) to Waynesboro VA). Most tickets sold by one party: Jim and Barbara Gilchrist --they asked to bring quantities to service club meetings where they sold over $200 worth of tickets. Most hours volunteered, individual: Rob Munro (plus guide dog Pilaf). Most hours volunteered, group: Fishburne Military School cadets' Key Club. Most impressive anvil heft: Henry Hawkins (the anvil was our display easel's anti-wind counterweight). Individual most loyal in the face of inconvenience: Warner Sandquist who stored the entire bulging car load of display supplies in his house each Sunday when the table needed to be taken down. Most patient spouse: Linda Sandquist --in reference to the above. Group most loyal in the face of inconvenience: the P.Buckley Moss Museum. First local business to offer financial assistance: Wal-Mart of Luray. Most ZIP codes traversed by a Volunteer in the shortest time: Pat Miller who drove from Charlottesville to Harrisonburg to volunteer, and then went on to Waynesboro for more volunteering, and from there back to C-ville. Furthest-away known hometowns of out-of-area tourist ticket buyers located in: Northern Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Texas. Volume of display materials: roughly 25 cubic feet. Cost of 2001 display material: roughly $50 (tireless scrounging along with donated graphic art / publication labor greatly reduced costs) Pieces of organizational correspondence sent: 51. Typical ticket purchase per person: $5. Smallest known purchase amount: $2. Largest known purchase amount: $100.

* See close-ups of the hand-painted additions .

* See the print as framed .

THE PRIZE IS WORTH OVER $1400. Official supporting documents will accompany the prize. Artist P. Buckley Moss (an Honorary Director of the Valley Voice Friends) is aware of the keen collector interest in her paintings. She gave us a print (titled Evening Watch) of one of her most popular "iconographic" subjects: a goose. To boost the print's desirability, Ms Moss took out her paintbrushes and went to work enhancing this prize, making it a Unique piece.

To the print's image of a goose standing afront a plain background, the artist has added with her own hand an entire additional goose. Ms Moss also added considerable background detail: many suggestions of trees in her distinctively calligraphic style of brushwork.

P. Buckley Moss' original watercolors of this size typically sell for five to ten thousand dollars. Her ordinary prints (technically, they're "offset lithographic reproductions") of this large size sell for around $200 in the year of issue. This print would bear a RARE PRINT label at the P. Buckley Moss Museum website --if it were even availible there. Because this popular print is several years old (circa 1994), there are NO copies left for sale at the official Moss Museum.

All availible copies were sold and the print will never be reissued. It is only available now on the secondary market where "supply and demand" raises the prices of hard-to-find images. As the last specimen of the print, scarcity has driven its value upward.

The P. Buckley Museum print shop list says that the value of the print alone, UNframed, would be $400 (compared to the $225 of its year-of-issue). However, that value would be for a "common" version of the print. our prize, the last available image of Evening Watch also has a LARGE extra area of original painting added. The value of such hand-overpainted prints ("remarqued" prints) is often many times higher than that of a common print --even if just a small area of unique overpainting exists. Ms Moss went to considerable lengths painting new details into this image. As stated above, she painted in an entirely new goose and also embellished the background for us. The Valley Voice Friends prize print of P. Buckley Moss' popular and scarce Evening Watch is one-of-a-kind.

According to the Moss Society (letter, Moss Society's Lance Allen to Valley Voice's Terry Ward, 10 September 2001) this remarqued print is worth $1225 in an UNframed state. The frame is worth roughly $235. Our print is professionally framed by authorized Moss dealer Donovan's Framery of Harrisonburg, VA. Throughout the region, Donovan's handiwork has a First Class reputation.

By e-mail, The Moss Society said that the market formula is (roughly): original issue price + remarque painting value + frame value = final collector value. In this case, the figure would be $225+$1000+$235. Thus, the framed prize print with hand-overpainting would be worth roughly $1460 according to the P. Buckley Moss Museum.

The actual collector value might be higher because this work has a complete autograph signature in pencil. Often, prints are sold with a photo-reproduced signature present from the time of the print's creation. Collectors then go to considerable lengths to get an original autograph on their print --sometimes by traveling to the artist's "Barn Studio" or other venues during official Signature Events. The artist's travels and busy schedule permit very few such opportunities.

We have not factored the autograph into our value estimate, but we assume that the hard-to-obtain signature does boost our prize's worth.

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TICKET$ are:WERE 3 for $5. 10 for $10. (singles are $2 each).

PRIZE DRAWING WAS BE THE FIRST SUNDAY OF NOVEMBER, 2001 (11-4-01).

For on-line tickets by CHECK, e-mail us your name and phone number (so we can call if you win), and how many tickets you want. Your e-mail lets you instantly reserve the right number of tickets before supplies run out. When your check arrives, we will fill in your tickets with your contact information and put them into the hat. Make a your check payable to VALLEY VOICE FRIENDS and send it by snail mail to: VALLEY VOICE FRIENDS, PO BOX 1292, HARRISONBURG, VIRGINIA 22803. To e-mail us, click here if your web browser supports pop-up e-mail. Otherwise, copy and paste these addresses: voiceboss@hotmail.com, wardtj@jmu.edu, munrorg@jmu.edu

Look for our volunteers staffing tables at these locations in the first three weekends of October:

P.Buckley Moss Museum of Waynesboro Va:

Sat-Sun Oct 6-7,

Fri-Sat-Sun Oct 12-13-14 (Note: The artist will be in Waynesboro on the Oct 12-13-14 weekend).

Sat-Sun Oct 20-21.

Driving Directions.(Directions are on a NON-Valley Voice site)

TICKET$ are:WERE 3 for $5. 10 for $10. (singles are $2 each).

PRIZE DRAWING WILL BE THE FIRST SUNDAY OF NOVEMBER, 2001 (11-4-01).

All contact information for non-winners will be shredded after the drawing: we will NEVER use it to send you mail or phone calls. Your privacy is important to us!

The Valley Voice and its fundraising arm, the Valley Voice Friends are non-profit 501(c)(3) charities. The V.V.F's federal ID number (EIN) is 54-1966173.

Raffle proceeds will be used to buy subcarrier radio receivers for the print-impaired of the Shenandoah Valley, so that they may hear the Valley Voice Radio Reading Service. Proceeds will also go towards the Valley Voice Cable TV Signal Project. A thousand thanks to artist P.Buckley Moss! Thanks also to Moss distributor Donovan's Framery of Harrisonburg for an outstanding frame. Thanks also to Lance Allen of the Moss Society and to the Moss Museum's Corrado Gabellieri and Bonnie Stump.

The Odds? Well, they're much better than a lottery! Typical state lotteries have a fixed number of possible ping pong ball number combinations, so their odds of picking your particular number are always "one in seven-point-four-million" or some such figure. This event is a true raffle, so your ticket is only competing with those of the other people who saw our raffle table and stopped to buy a ticket (plus the very few people who might buy on-line). At most, a few hundred competing tickets might be up against yours --it depends on how many tickets we manage to sell. If you happened to be the only person to buy tickets, you would be assured of winning. To improve your odds, buy more tickets!