Dandelion Wine Performance with Actor Paul McComas

CELEBRATE Ray Bradbury's 101st Birthday with a performance of DANDELION WINE by actor Paul McComas

CELEBRATE Ray Bradbury and SUMMER WITH A DELIGHTFUL DOSE OF DANDELION WINE!

Journey back nearly a century to Summer 1928 in Waukegan, Ill. just as Ray Bradbury lived it—and, a generation later, wrote about it in his classic 1957 memoir-cum-novel. Author/literary-scholar and actor Paul McComas performs the book's opening scene and its most moving chapter (heads-up to Ray fans: it's “Helen Loomis and William Forrester”), then closes with the book's companion-piece Bradbury poem “Just This Side of Byzantium” (1974). “Even greater than anything Ray achieved in science fiction,” contends Paul, “is this most elegiac of American novels.”

• Show and tell your treasured summer memory. Bring your souvenir, photo, or memento to show and be ready to tell about it.
• Wear your old time costume.
• Sing Happy Birthday to Ray and enjoy birthday cake.