Katahdin Art Project
"A beautiful way to support the trail"
The Win, Win, Win Approach to Fundraising
By pricing the Katahdin Art Project at $250 and $400, you the contributor, are receiving an unbelievable value. This piece of art meets the highest archival standard, based on the research of Henry Wilhelm and his wife Carol Bower. Photographic prints (without the additional engraved art work of the poem and that are matted, mounted and framed in a less expensive manner) sell in the general price range of $400 to $500. By checking out other websites, it is very evident that there truly is a savings of at least $150 on the Memorial Edition.
Besides getting an incredible deal on the selling price the Katahdin Art Project, the buyer also is donating money to worthy causes. With your $400 purchase for the Signed Edition, you will also qualify for a federal income tax credit of $250. if you itemize your deductions. As outlined in the Funds generated page,both the Earl Shaffer Foundation and the AT Museum Society will receive a minimum of $100 of the purchase price and you choose how to divide the other $50. If selected the remaining funds will be donated to the hiking club of your choosing. As outlined above, you determine how to divide your donation!
The outcome of your $250 investment is that you will own a limited edition collector's piece of art easily valued at $400 and have also donated $100 to worth while causes. So the true total of out pocket costs for the actual art work is $150!
We at Crest Photography, realize there are not many opportunities available which allows the buyer to make time payments and a charitable donation while investing in a beautiful memento from one of the trail pioneers. Please consider sharing some of your earnings with the Trail in exchange of alittle piece of Earl's spirit.
We feel that the individuals that make up core membership of the various hiking clubs along the Appalachian Trail have a sense of kinship to Earl Shaffer. He was a man who never let the prevailing conventional wisdom determine his actions, but instead followed his deeply held convictions. His entire life was a testimonial to the virtues his family valued and the fact that accomplishments are first achieved in the mind's eye. While signing cards for the project he started joking with Bart that "we are going to get money for an A.T. museum just by writing our names real small, a lot times." Our approach is based on that belief--each individual sale is the germ seed that will in turn bring to fruition the grand vision of Earl Shaffer.
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Contact us: crestphotography@attbi.com
or at:
Crest Photography, Inc
#4 Westlake St. SW
Tacoma, WA 98498
Phone: 253-983-7487
Fax: 253-983-1304
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Date Page Last Updated: 07/24/2003