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Donation Drive 2024!
Many thanks to everyone who donated to our annual donation drive. With your help, we raised more than $34,000!!!
We will honor any donations received by April 30 (as in, those monies will count toward our total, and those donors will receive the incentives for donations at particular levels).
Thank you. We are grateful beyond words for your support!
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From April 8 to April 25, the BTS aimed to raise $33K to repair the upstairs ceiling and floor in Tacy's House and to replenish our savings. It’s more than we asked for last year in a shorter time frame, but we were hopeful.
We offered some very nice incentives for various donation levels:
All donors received one of our charming virtual “I Donated!” stickers, which they can use on their own social media pages. Donors are also acknowledged on our website.
For $25 or more: a lovely PDF of one of Maud’s short stories, “The Episodes of Epsie”! (Betsy wrote this during her London stay in Great World and sold it to Ainslee’s magazine.)
For $50 or more: All the above PLUS a secret link to an original YouTube video, “Emily’s Slough”!
For $100 or more: All the above PLUS an elegantly formatted PDF of “An Adventure on Puget Sound,” the actual essay Maude-with-an-e Hart wrote in high school!
For $200 or more: All the above PLUS two gorgeously colored prints of specially selected Lois Lenski and Vera Neville illustrations, ready for framing!
For $500 or more: All the above PLUS a Mystery Box filled with carefully chosen items from our BTS Shop!
For $1,000 or more: All the above PLUS their own engraved paver in the walkway at Betsy’s House!
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Join Us in Celebrating Maud’s Birthday!
To kick off the reopening of the Betsy-Tacy Houses for public tours in May, the BTS will host a birthday party for our beloved author on April 27, 1–4 p.m. We’ve planned so many fun activities, including craft projects, story hour, old-fashioned games, and photo opportunities! Our Shop will be open for browsing and buying, and we’ll have some yummy goodies for our guests.
Notes:
We offer tours to the public on either a scheduled or drop-in basis on Saturday afternoons, 1–3 p.m., from May through October. Private tours are also available at other days and times; please contact us to arrange this.
Our Saturday open hours are possible because of the generosity of our wonderful volunteers. Want to be part of this fabulous Crowd? We’d love to have you!
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