Local Legends: Franklin and Mark McMahon

Picture of Lake Forest Library
 by Mark McMahon, 1998,
hangs in Library's outer lobby.

The Lake Forest - Lake Bluff Historical Society's 2015 Local Legends benefit this Saturday, Oct. 24 at 4 p.m. at the Gorton Center will honor artists Mark McMahon and his late father Franklin.  Bill Kurtis will be interviewing Mark McMahon about his and his father's experience as artist-reporters. You can register for the program at the Historical Society's website.

Mark McMahon's picture of the Lake Forest Library (at left) and his picture of the Friends of Lake Forest Library's 2004 book sale hang in the library's outer lobby along with Franklin McMahon's painting of Hemingway's house in Key West, Florida, which was a gift to the library from the Friends of Lake Forest Library in 2010.  The library has compiled a Franklin and Mark McMahon Reading List with links to full text articles, including many from the library's subscription databases.  You will need a Lake Forest Library card number to access those articles from outside the library, but all of the articles can be accessed directly from any of the library's computers.  Books and articles from the list are also on display on the round table in the library's rotunda.  We invite you to come see the McMahon works we have here and to read about this year's Local Legends.