The Men of Maple Corner
History:
In chronological order (newest entries
at bottom of page )
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Jan./1999 -
3/10/2002 |
See Last Year's History from the start thru March 10th, 2002 at the MOMC Calendar 2002 website. |
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3/11/2002
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Sally Jessy Raphael's daytime talk show, the longest-running of its genre, has been canceled after nearly two decades on the air. But don't blame us! |
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3/15/2002
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Survey about Calendar 2002 sent to 400 past customers. Results: 96% rated it excellent, 95% want us to do a 2003 calendar and would purchase an average of 2.24 calendars each. |
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3/18/2002
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Building Committee makes a list of work to be done on the Community Center. |
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4/11/2002
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Community meeting to talk about what to do with calendar money. |
 5 /19/2002 |
With most of the work done in the downstairs of the Center, except painting, we have a big Community Clean-up day so we can start using the building again. |
 6/25/2002 |
The Maple Corner Community Center holds it's annual meeting. At the meeting, the board presented their decisions on spending/investing calendar profits, and announced the decision to go ahead with a Men of Maple Corner calendar for 2003. They also presented proposed by-law changes and a slate of candidates for the new board, which was voted on. |
 7/3/2002 |
The Men of 2002 march in the Montpelier, Vt. parade. See the Times Argus article. See "Mr. July" being attacked and kissed by an unknow wild middle aged woman. |
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7/8/2002
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Board Meeting of the Maple
Corner Community Center: the Calendar Committee is selected and
given the OK to proceed with work
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7/10/2002
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The Calendar Committee meets
to pick Men from "the hat", using
the previously published selection
process . Winners to be announced soon. We may start taking
photos in as soon as a week.
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7/15/2002
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Community meeting to discuss
possible recipients of funds from MOMC calendar 2003. 7PM at the
Community Center
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7/17/2002
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Article published in the Times
Argus newspaper "Men
in Buff II - Maple Corner men 'posed' for another year"
Also see press release
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7/17/2002
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First
photos taken - Craig
Line took photos of all the men in front of the Curtis Pond
dam, in what we hope to be our cover shot. Also present, 2 TV stations,
AP, and many reporters. WCAX will be showing some of this on the
11PM news tonight
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7/18/2002
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People have told me they heard the Men on radio, Vermont and New Hampshire Public Radio, and on FOX TV as far away as Washington state. Web server gets 35,000 hits today. |
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7/19/2002
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More photos being taken for the individual months, but the weather turned cloudy and we only got Eric done, our second month. The Men are seen on TV in Boston, and on CNN. Website hits today: 59,000 |
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7/20/2002
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A group of the 2002 men go on vacation together. They go spring skiing and to the Kent Museum. |
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7/21/2002
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A group of the 2002 men help a local farmer get in his hay |
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7/24/2002
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More haying, and then a quick hike. Afterwards we all go out for maple creemies. |
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7/28/2002
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Photos taken of the Mr.s December in hockey skates at the rink, then back to Maple Corner to watch the Maple Corner Men for Decency protest rally.(see photos) After that, back down to the Statehouse in Montpelier to recieve our Proclamations from the legislature. |
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8/1/2002
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Photos have been taken for 8 months out of 13, and the cover shot, so we seem to be on schedule!! |
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8/16/2002
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Last photos taken for the calendar months, Mr. October in the Adamant Granite Quarry |
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8/18/2002
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Photo shoot for the Vermont Dairy Board ad, part of the "Got Milk" campaign (see the ad) |
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8/19/2002
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The first photos and text
goes to the designers at Hummingbird Graphics
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9/4/2002
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All photos are picked, and
at the designers. We expect to have final proofs of the calendar
early next week to check and send to the printer.
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 9/6/2002 |
Friday afternoon, Chris and
Steve pick up 10,000 priority mailing boxes from the Montpelier,
VT post office. That's 6000 pounds of boxes. It took 2 loads filling
a van with a trailer behind both trips.
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9/13 - 9/15/2002
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Final, final proofs for design details and typos, etc. completed |
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9/16/2002
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THE CALENDAR GOES TO THE PRINTER!!! |
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10/4/2002
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Friday morning we pick up 3000 calendars and deliver to bookstores in Montpelier, Essex, and Burlington, Vt. We pick up our first batch of hats and T-shirts and bring them back to Maple Corner. |
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10/5/2002
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Start off of the 42nd Calais Fall Foliage Festival with a tug-of war between the 2002 calendar boys and the 2003 guys, with about 150 spectators, and broadcast live on WDEV. Sad to say, but the new guys won, so I guess they're younger and better looking. Following the "war", we all had breakfast, and sold calendars at the Community Center. |
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10/7/2002
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The rest of our first printing delivered to Miller's barn, ready for our first, and subsequent shippings. |
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10/8/2002
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Live radio interviews on stations from Alberta, Canada, and Chicago. |
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10/9/2002
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Some bookstores already sold out and we send out a request for volunteers to help with bookstore deliveries. The calendars, hats, and T-shirts are all selling well. |
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10/10/2002
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Second batch of mail order shipped out in our Priority Mail boxes. We will probably be mailing out calendars about 2 times per week. |
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10/14/2002
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The calendar signing in Montpelier was alot of fun. I think we had all 16 guys they at one point. |
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11/1/2002
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While this might not be Historical
and Groundbreaking news to everyone, We in Maple Corner are pleased
and proud to announce that as of the end of October, and only 4
weks since the calendar was printed, we have sold over $100,000
worth of our 2003 calendars, actually about $119,000, including
T-shirts and hats. Also, please remember that 100% of the profit
from these sales are going to community based non-profit groups.
Click Here to see where the money is going!!
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11/6/2002
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Our calendar manager, Chris Miller, "Mr. February, 2002" talked to the famous Tom and Ray of the Car Talk show on Public Radio. If they use his question, it will be on the air Saturday, Nov. 16th. They get 10,000 calls per week, and talk to 10 per week, so we are already 1 in a thousand. Click here to listen. Chris is the second caller in this segment |
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11/22/2002
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Calendar signing in Morrisville, VT |
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11/23/2002
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Calendar signing at Apple Montain, Church St., Burlington Vermont |
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11/30/2002
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Calendar signing at the Maple Corner Store from 9AM - noon was broadcast live by WDEV radio |
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12/2/2002
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Our "Got Milk?" poster is out and available. Click here to see our "Got Milk?" photo.You can get them free from the Vermont Dept. of Agriculture, or the Vermont Dairy Council. Send an e-mail with your name and mailing address, and how many posters you need, to: Sally Worthington Sally.Worthington@state.vt.us |
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12/3/2002
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We were contacted today by reporters from both USA Today, and a Brazilian magazine called "Tudo". Watch for their upcoming articles. |
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12/10/2002
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Record sales of $6,000.00 in one day, as people finish up some Holiday shopping, and grab some of our shirts and hats at the new sale price. |
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12/11/2002
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Interview on Radio Talk show WNTK, with Chris Miller, "Mr.Feruary, 2002" |
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12/13/2002
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Article in USA Today brings record traffic to website, and more orders. It puts us up to about 15,000 in calendars sales. Click here to read the story online |
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12/14/2002
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Another calendar signing at Apple Mountain, Church St., Burlinton, VT. Peter Burke gets on TV, Channel 22 11PM News. |
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