An Afternoon with Teddy Roosevelt at the Wauconda Area Library!

Theodore Roosevelt – “Teddy” to the world – was the face of America for three decades. Join us on Sunday, November 8th at 2pm for an entertaining and informative presentation of one of the most colorful personalities in American history. Powerful, opinionated, intensely loyal, and devoted to the ideal of a just, honorable, and muscular America, he stood for high ideals, and never preached anything he didn’t practice. As Teddy would say, “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground!”

This exciting personal and public life of Teddy Roosevelt comes to life as Derek Evans travels through Teddy Roosevelt’s days as a soldier, conservationist, athlete, philosopher, adventurer, Nobel Prize winner, scholar, teacher, visionary, father, and 26th president of the United States. This first-person narrative is presented with amazing clarity and surprising present-day similarities. The performance strongly highlights this man’s inner commitment to family values and protection of the environment.

Derek Evans was trained for the theatre at Northwestern University, New York University and the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco. As manager and director of the Monarch Theatre Company he toured Shakespeare, Opera and literary adaptations to schools throughout the American Midwest, logging almost seven thousand performances for over two million students. Since 1997 he has performed TR! for schools, colleges, universities, libraries, churches and museums from California to Vermont.

The Wauconda Area Public Library District, located in Lake and McHenry Counties in Chicago’s northwest suburbs, serves a population of 27,246 residents, including all or portions of Island Lake, Lakemoor, Lake Barrington, Port Barrington, Volo, and Wauconda.