Announcing the Eurithe Purdy Matched Fundraising Campaign

The Al Purdy A-frame Association is very pleased to announce that Eurithe Purdy will be matching all donations to the A-frame Foundation Project up to $10,000, from now until her birthday on November 10, 2023. The Al Purdy A-frame Association runs a highly successful nationally recognized writer-in-residence program from the former home, a local heritage…

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A-frame Association Nominated for Heritage Award

The Al Purdy A-frame Association has been nominated for the Margaret and Nicholas Hill Cultural Heritage Landscape Award for their efforts to restore the historic property and writer’s retreat, an important piece of Canadian cultural and literary heritage. The award is one of several annual heritage citations by Architectural Conservancy Ontario (ACO). Award recipients will…

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Come Visit the A-frame on September 23

It’s time for the annual the OPEN HOUSE at the Al and Eurithe Purdy A-frame. Mark your calendars for Saturday, September 23, and plan on making a trip to Prince Edward County to visit the A-frame from 10 to 5. Board members will be there to show you around and answer questions. There will be…

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PURDY WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM ENTERS TENTH YEAR

AMELIASBURGH, Ont. – Eight Canadian writers have been chosen to take up residence at the Al Purdy A-frame for the 2023 season, the 10th year the writer-in-residence program has welcomed artists to the shores of Roblin Lake in Prince Edward County. “What seemed like a good idea when fundraising began in 2008 is now a…

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GIVING TUESDAY & BEYOND

PLEASE CONSIDER MONTHLY SUPPORT FOR THE AL PURDY A-FRAME WRITERS-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM It’s been a long and challenging three years in the shadow of COVID, but thanks to the continued support of many we’ve kept the lights on and the doors open to the writers-in-residence program at the Al Purdy A-frame. A residency at the legendary…

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Surprise poem appears on FB page

Posted on the Al Purdy A-frame page today by David Fraser. Thank you, David. Making friends with Al Purdy Scraping sideways through factory door frames, Vancouver to St. Johns Ass in a sling peregrinations of an afflicted writer with his bride, the binding spine and glue that bound the Purdy book holding the pages together,…

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