Bradbury Carnegie Center exhibits at Dandelion Wine Festival and Printers Row Lit Fest

Nostalgic wooden doors from the shuttered Waukegan Carnegie Library will be on view at the Bradbury Carnegie Center's booth on June 4 at Bowen Park in Waukegan during the 16th annual Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine Festival.

"We want the doors to give everyone a glimpse of how beautiful Carnegie Library was and how beautiful it will be again when the Bradbury Carnegie Center opens in the future," said Sandy Petroshius, president of the Ray Bradbury Waukegan Carnegie Library Inc.

A vintage poster from the movie "Fahrenheit 451" will also be on display along with historical photos of the Carnegie Library, Bradbury books, coloring pages for all ages, and architectural plans for the future center. Visitors can enter their names in a free drawing to win a tour of the Carnegie Building to be held later this summer. The festival is open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The Bradbury Carnegie Center will also exhibit at the 2016 Printers Row Lit Fest in Chicago, June 11-12, an event sponsored by the Chicago Tribune that annually attracts over 150,000 book lovers. "We're very excited to be at the famed Lit Fest spreading the word about the Bradbury Carnegie Center," said Edward Torrez, architect with the Chicago firm Bauer Latoza who designed the building plans for the future center. "Being from Waukegan, I'm especially thrilled to be part of renovating the building.

"Did you know that R.L. Stine, author of the Goosebumps series, credits Ray Bradbury, our Waukegan native son, for his inspiration? Stine will also be exhibiting so it's only fitting that we honor Ray Bradbury along with him and the other literary superstars," said Petroshius. R.L. Stine is one of the best-selling children's authors in history.

The mission of Ray Bradbury Waukegan Carnegie Library Inc. is to renovate "Ray Bradbury's Library," the long-vacant Carnegie Library at 1 N. Sheridan Road, Waukegan, and establish the Bradbury Carnegie Center in the renovated building. "This highly interactive museum center will be dedicated to celebrating Bradbury's life, works, and brilliant imagination and designed to attract local, national, and international fans and visitors," said board member John Harris, of a5 inc., a Chicago branding and marketing firm.

For more information, visit The Ray Bradbury Waukegan Carnegie Library, Inc. at www.bradburycarnegie.org.