Penfriends: Fund-raising turns into a work of art
ARTY Bolton residents are invited to send in their masterpieces for a charity auction that will help cement Anglo-Irish relations.The organisation Anglo-Irish Penfriends, which provides contacts between Britain and Ireland will be holding a charity auction in October.They request all types of artwork from watercolour, to charcoal to oil on canvas to be sold off to help raise much-needed funds.Anyone who would like to provide an artwork donation should send it, wrapped inside thick...
Penfriends: Friends on paper and in the flesh
FOR more than 35 years, Christine Gower and Betty Craggs shared each others dreams, heartaches and secrets ' on paper. The penfriends and self-confessed soul mates have been through marriages, births and deaths together.Almost four decades after the women exchanged their first letters, Mrs Craggs and her husband Dennis have come from Lincolnshire to spend a month in Australia with Mrs Gower and her husband Peter, of Valentine.Mrs Gower was only 14 when her neighbour...
Penfriends: Friendship sealed,
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PERTH woman Dot Searle has flown across the continent to celebrate her 80th birthday with an old buddy. She and her Newcastle host, Mary Pereira, were born on the same day ' June 1, 1921.They have been penfriends since the age of 12 when they answered a newspaper call for correspondents from a Canadian-based club.Club organisers suggested they get in contact after noting that they shared a birth date, a religion (Anglican) and an English background.`Our first letters...
Penfriends: The 1,300 British women who write to America's death row
LESLEY MORELAND and Michael Richard are at the opposite ends of crime. She is on a terrible journey, trying to understand the murder of her daughter. He is on a voyage of fear, destined for death by lethal injection. Yet they are penfriends.Moreland is one of 1,200 British women who write to prisoners on America's death row. She sends family photographs, or an embroidered card or a homemade sweater. Moreland looks for the good in people. She sees a chance of redemption if they...
Penfriends: Harvey lost in a world of words By PAULINE CLARK
A MAN of letters has sealed plans for a holiday of a lifetime.Harvey Hopkins, 27, of Rock, is to spend a week in Florida in December celebrating the millennium with 30 American penfriends.Sadly, he cannot be with all the 229 people he corresponds with throughout the world but no doubt he will be writing to most of them with best wishes.He regularly corresponds with all his penfriends, spending most of his spare time when not at work at his writing desk - except when he is on his...
