CANADA'S PEOPLES POET AL PURDY: SAVE AL PURDYS HOUSE

Al Purdy’s house, the one he built himself with the help of friend and poet Milton Acorn, is for sale. What can we do to ensure that another link to our literary heritage is not destroyed? Site on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=10110374980 Here's Saturday's G&M article about the house:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080712.ALPURDY12/TPStory/TPEntertainment/Ontario/

UPDATE!!

You are a member of the facebook group Save Al Purdy’s House.
It’s time to say WHY.


The Purdy A-frame Project

So we built a house, my wife and I
our house at a backwater puddle of a lake
near Ameliasburg, Ont.
--Al Purdy “In Search of Owen Roblin”

And that A-frame house, made out of second-hand lumber and original poetry, became the most famous writer's house in the country. Hundreds of writers and their housemates found their way to Roblin Lake to visit the Purdys and talk about poetry and history while downing beer or wild grape wine. Coleridge and his friends had their lake country, and now the Canadian poets would have theirs. A lot of poetry and prose came out of that hard-to-find place.

To prevent its second-hand wood from ending up on someone's scrap heap, and with the blessing and support of Eurithe Purdy, The Purdy A-frame project is raising funds to purchase and preserve the property, create an endowment and establish a poet-in-residence program.

Please write a letter of support and circulate this message to others who might be interested.

Letters can be sent by mail or email to:
Jean Baird
4403 West 11th Ave.,
Vancouver BC
V6R 2M2

jeanbaird@shaw.ca