Mac and Irene Series: April Newsletter

 Happy Earth Day!

 

Mac and Irene series: If Trees Could Talk will launch in August.  Would you be willing to write a review?  After one hundred years in the Adirondacks and one hundred years in Chicago, this artistic family knows how to bounce back.  

For More Information Visit https://www.margotmcmahon.com

 

 

Join us for Earth Day in-person, and virtual events, to launch Green Blocks Initiative

Saturday April 24^th Gwendolyn Brooks Park, 4601 Greenwood, Chicago, IL 

10:00-12:00 ASAP! Adopt Sapling Project Workshop with Green Blocks Initiative Announcement by TreeKeepers: Cynthia Quick and Margot McMahon

11:00-12:45 Poetry for Peace Workshop with Color of Change

YaleBlueGreen Judith Singleton, YBG & YChicago:Margot McMahon 

ybgchicago@gmail.com 

12:45 Poem in the Round: Cynthia Quick

 

           Alternatively, ASAP! Adopt Sapling Project will Live Stream

            on Facebook Wednesdays April 14th and April 28 5:30-6:15 with Q&A

            https://www.facebook.com/margot.mcmahon/

 

ASAP! Video https://vimeo.com/416453557

 

EARTHRISE  Amanda Gorman- reading to inspire poetry writing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92XFwAoJn6w

 

With 100 years in Chicago and the previous 100 years in the Adirondacks, our family's domiciles have improved while the love of trees has united five generations. Saint Francis (Frank) is a wood carved trunk Dad carved that was at our front door on Greenbay Road, Mayflower Road and Devonshire. Frank may have been who inspired me to carve wood starting in elementary school? Or, is it just what my family does?

I'll never know...

  

Mac's Saint Francis on Greenbay Road. Bess McMahon and Saint Francis at Airdrie on Mayflower.

Margot's ash carving of "Queen" of "Checkmate" on 

Belmont and Lakeshore Drive

Please visit The Chicago Tree Project: https://www.chicagotreeproject.org/

 

            Bess McMahon hunting in the Adirondacks (right) c.1919

  

Mid-1800s loggers camp in the Adirondacks. Wood was energy for heat and cooking, made paper pulp for the new printing presses and walls of  homes throughout the United States. These slides are from Franklin County, NY and the AuSable River where my family lived for 100+ years. In 1894 Teddy Roosevelt protected the Adirondacks from clear cutting by designating a state park. Our great grandparents had already moved to Chicago to help build the Worlds Fair. The Adirondack forest is now past fifth generations of growth.