Back in 1933 when a group of Farmland, Indiana women first got together for their bi-weekly game of bridge, the last thing they expected was that 72 years later they’d be posing in a … let’s say scintillating fashion … for a calendar.
Incensed over the county commissioners’ decision that morning to destroy the county’s historic courthouse, Eileen Herron, 86, and her family devised a plan: photographing Eileen and her bridge club friends in “intriguing” poses using porcelain replicas of the courthouse as strategic cover-ups. After all, they reasoned, what better way to demonstrate the 1877 structure’s worth than to showcase the lovely longevity found in these women, all of whom had lived long and full lives in the Farmland area. Not only would the calendar be the women’s personal protest against demolishing the old building, $5 from the sale of each calendar would be contributed to a Save the Courthouse Fund set up by Historic Farmland USA.