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LAKE FOREST/LAKE BLUFF COMMUNITY CALENDAR
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Ragdale's Novel Affair
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After a wildly successful sold-out event in 2007, A Novel Affairs returns. Friday night's opening reception is already slated to take place at a historic Lake Forest estate, the locations have been decided and the authors have been announced.
Confirmed authors to date:
Elizabeth George (Careless in Red -- being released in May, 2008)
Ann Hood (The Knitting Circle)
Joyce Maynard (To Die For, At Home in the World)
Tom Perrotta (Little Children, Election)
Richard Russo (The Bridge of Sighs, Empire Falls, Nobody's Fool)
Scott Turow (Presumed Innocent)
Luis Alberto Urrea (The Devil's Highway)
If you would like to receive an invitation, please call 847-234-1063, Ext. 201, to leave your name and address.
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Farmers Market
Time:
7:00am - 12:00pm
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Lake Bluff Village Green (southwest corner of Scranton and Center Avenues).
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Yom Kippur
Daughters of the American Revolution
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Knollwood Club, 1890 Waukegan Road, Lake Forest.
For more information, contact Cathy Tucker at 847-234-0115.
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LF Symphony Concert
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Lake Forest Symphony, under the musical direction of Alan Heatherington, at the James Lumber Center for the Performing Arts in Grayslake on the College of Lake County campus.
The concert will begin at 8 p.m., with a free pre-concert lecture by music researcher and composer Jim Kendros offered at 7 p.m. Concert sponsors: First Midwest and Lake Forest Symphony Guild.
Single tickets for the concert are $49, $39 and $29 with senior and student discounts available. Tickets may be purchased by calling the Symphony office at 847-295-2135 or online at www.lakeforestsymphony.org.
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Farmers Market
Time:
7:00am - 12:00pm
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Lake Bluff Village Green (southwest corner of Scranton and Center Avenues).
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LF Symphony Concert
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Lake Forest Symphony, under the musical direction of Alan Heatherington, at the James Lumber Center for the Performing Arts in Grayslake on the College of Lake County campus.
The concert will begin at 8 p.m., with a free pre-concert lecture by music researcher and composer Jim Kendros offered at 7 p.m. Concert sponsors: First Midwest and Lake Forest Symphony Guild.
Single tickets for the concert are $49, $39 and $29 with senior and student discounts available. Tickets may be purchased by calling the Symphony office at 847-295-2135 or online at www.lakeforestsymphony.org.
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Columbus Day
Fall Grotto Dance
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For more information contact Gorton Community Center at 847-234-6060 or visit www.gortoncenter.org.
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Fall Grotto Dance
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For more information contact Gorton Community Center at 847-234-6060 or visit www.gortoncenter.org.
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Witches Walk
Time:
4:00pm - 6:00pm
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This annual Halloween festival at Middlefork Farm Nature Preserve, is educational and sometimes spooky, but always fun for the whole family. Go in costume and be the guests of the Open Lands witches. Hosted by the Associate Board of Lake Forest Open Lands. Park at Lake Forest Hospital and take the shuttle -- better than a broom! For more information please contact Holly Meeks, Membership and Special Events Coordinator at 847-234-3880, x10. Please leave dogs at home.
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Halloween
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