...AND THE WINNER IS: TICKET #815126, HELD BY CARRIE H. OF WEYER'S CAVE, VA. WINNER HAD PICKED UP THREE TICKETS AT THE VALLEY VOICE FRIENDS RAFFLE TICKET TABLE AT GREEN VALLEY BOOKFAIR.

TOTAL TICKET SALES RAISED AT LEAST $3000.

TICKET$: 3 for $5, 10 for $10, 30 for $20,
100 for $50, 200 for $100.

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* See close-ups of the hand-painted additions (two extra people, Father and Girl, in lower right) .

* 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 Time) of one of her most popular Valley subjects: farm kids in Mennonite style dress. 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 nine Mennonites standing near a rail fence, the artist has added with her own hand two additional people!

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 nearly twenty years old (circa 1985), there are NO copies left for sale at the official Moss Museum. Only 1000 had been printed in 1985.

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.

Our prize 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 two entirely new people. The Valley Voice Friends prize print of P. Buckley Moss' popular and scarce Evening Time is one-of-a-kind.

According to the Moss Society (letter will accompany the prize print) this remarqued print is worth $1150 in an UNframed state. The frame is worth roughly $285. 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 (paraphrased): art value + frame value = final collector value. In this case, the figure would be $1150+$285. Thus, the framed prize print with hand-overpainting would be worth roughly $1435.

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.

TICKET$ are:3 for $5, 10 for $10, 30 for $20, 100 for $50, 200 for $100.

PRIZE DRAWING WILL BE THE NOVEMBER FIRST, 2002 (11-1-01); YOU NEED NOT BE PRESENT TO WIN.

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: valleyvoice@jmu.edu, wardtj@jmu.edu, munrorg@jmu.edu

Look for our volunteers staffing tables at these locations in September-October 2002:

Sat-Sun Sept 28-29
WalMart SuperCenter of Harrisonburg, Va.
Done! Thank you WalMart and Mr. Furman!

Sat-Sun Oct 5-6
Green Valley BookFair of Mt.Crawford, Va
Done! Thank you Green Valley BookFair and Mr. Evans!

Fri-Sat-Sun Oct 11-12-13
P.Buckley Moss Museum of Waynesboro Va
(Note: The artist will be in Waynesboro).
Driving Directions.(Directions are on a NON-Valley Voice site)

TICKET$ are:3 for $5, 10 for $10, 30 for $20, 100 for $50, 200 for $100.

PRIZE DRAWING WILL BE THE NOVEMBER FIRST, 2002 (11-1-01); YOU NEED NOT BE PRESENT TO WIN.

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!