Saturday, August 21, 2010

Starry Night Fundraiser for Waukegan Public Library (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)

The Waukegan Public Library presents the Inaugural Starry Night Gala fund-raiser, with several different literary themed gardens with live music, food, and drinks.  The "Starry Night" house welcomed guests with a red carpet leading to a very realistic mannequin.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)

The Waukegan Public Library presents the Inaugural Starry Night Gala fund-raiser, with several different literary themed gardens with live music, food, and drinks.  The "Starry Night" house welcomed guests with a red carpet leading to a very realistic mannequin.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)

The Waukegan Public Library presents the Inaugural Starry Night Gala fund-raiser, with several different literary themed gardens with live music, food, and drinks.  The "Crime and Punishment" house offered Hors d'ouerves and Vodka tasting.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)

The "Crime and Punishment" house offered Hors d'ouerves and Vodka tasting.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)

The Great Gatsby themed area made a clever "Speakeasy" with wine tasting and show tunes.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)

Gerrie (left) and Tom Ryan of Lake Bluff point out the bullet holes on the car in the "Great Gatsby" themed area.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)

A really nicely lit path leads into the Bonaventure Cemetery, in the "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil".  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)

Phil Carrigan and Mark Clare Jakes of Waukegan enjoy the steelpan music played by Mia Gormandy and her band in the "Hemingway" house.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)

"Fahrenheit 451" an explanation of a hedonistic anti-intellectual America, brings a Ray Bradbury inspired Megan Wells and Jim May to perform a storytelling.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)

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