{"id":571,"date":"2014-02-24T09:54:29","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T15:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/friends\/?p=571"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:34:17","slug":"speaker-series-kelly-oconnor-mcnees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/2014\/02\/24\/speaker-series-kelly-oconnor-mcnees\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Series: Kelly O&#8217;Connor McNees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/friends\/files\/2014\/02\/Kelly-McNees-Speaker-Series-spring-2014.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/friends\/files\/2014\/02\/Kelly-McNees-Speaker-Series-spring-2014-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Kelly McNees -  Speaker Series - spring 2014\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">On April 15 the Friends of the Library Speaker Series welcomes<br \/>\n<strong>Kelly O\u2019Connor McNees<\/strong>.<br \/>\nPlease join us as she discusses her historical novel, <em>The Island of Doves<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Tuesday, April 15, 2014<br \/>\n6 PM<br \/>\nKlarchek Information Commons, 4th Floor<br \/>\nLake Shore Campus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Island of Doves<\/em> is a historical novel about two women, wealthy fur-trader Magdelaine Fonteneau and runaway wife Susannah Fraser, whose lives intersect on Mackinac Island in 1835. At this time of great change for the island\u2013steamboat travel has opened this once-isolated place, and the fur trade is a thing of the past\u2013Magdelaine offers Susannah refuge in her home, unaware of how the young woman\u2019s presence will dredge up secrets long buried and wounds unhealed. This talk will focus on the research on the island, and particularly the remarkable life of Magdelaine LaFramboise, the \u201cfirst lady of Mackinac Island\u201d and the woman on whom the fictional protagonist is based.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/friends\/files\/2014\/02\/The-Island-of-Doves.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/friends\/files\/2014\/02\/The-Island-of-Doves-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The Island of Doves\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-591\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kelly O\u2019Connor McNees is the author of three novels: <em>The Island of Doves<\/em>, <em>The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott<\/em>, and <em>In Need of a Good Wife<\/em>, a finalist for the Willa Award. She lives with her husband and daughter in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>For further information, please contact Svetlana Surkevicius at <a href=\"mailto:esurkevicius@luc.edu\"><strong>esurkevicius@luc.edu<\/strong> <\/a> or 773.508.2641.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/friends\/files\/2014\/02\/Kelly-McNees-Speaker-Series-spring-2014.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/friends\/files\/2014\/02\/Kelly-McNees-Speaker-Series-spring-2014-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Kelly McNees -  Speaker Series - spring 2014\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">On April 15 the Friends of the Library Speaker Series welcomes<br \/>\n<strong>Kelly O\u2019Connor McNees<\/strong>.<br \/>\nPlease join us as she discusses her historical novel, <em>The Island of Doves<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Tuesday, April 15, 2014<br \/>\n6 PM<br \/>\nKlarchek Information Commons, 4th Floor<br \/>\nLake Shore Campus<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6851],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":606,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions\/606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}