Carl Sandburg Historic Site Association

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The home where poet and author Carl Sandburg was born and its adjacent grounds containing a park and garden are located at 331 East Third Street on the south side of Galesburg, Illinois.

Next door is the Visitor's Center staffed Wednesdays through Sundays from 9 a.m until 5 p.m. -- the same hours the birthplace is open. It contains a museum, a museum shop, a small theater where several informative videos about Carl Sandburg are shown and a renovated "barn" which is actually a small theatre with a few more exhibits and where live performances are often held. The museum contains hundreds of artifacts and modern colorful displays appropriate for all ages.

The Carl Sandburg Historic Site is supported by the State of Illinois and the nonprofit Carl Sandburg Historic Site Association. The Association sponsors and participates in many activities throughout the year to honor and remember Carl Sandburg. These include the "Penny Parade" which brings schoolchildren to the site to have fun while learning about Galesburg's most famous son. The Association is a participating sponsor of the Sandburg Days Festival held in May. It hosts the Songbag Concert Series of band and folk music concerts held inside the Visitor's Center or newly renovated "garage" in the fall and winter. Details of upcoming concerts are available at the site of the series' producer, John Heasly.

The Carl Sandburg Historic Site Association planned and funded a perennial garden and quotation walk in the back yard. The plantings are appropriate to Sandburg's era and surround Remembrance Rock, where the ashes of Carl Sandburg and his wife, Lilian, are buried.

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Hemingway meets Sandburg. Thanks to the generosity of the Hemingway Foundation, the nationally-known pictorial exhibit: "Picturing Hemingway: a Writer in his Time" is on display at the Carl Sandburg Visitors Center through April 27th.

The 2008 Sandburg Days Festival for the Mind is April 24-26. Watch for details on the festival website at www.sandburg.edu/festival. The kick-off for the festival is a concert by Greg Reish on April 24th at 7pm at the Carl Sandburg Visitors Center. He'll be featuring songs from Carl Sandburg's American Songbag. Stop by and hear some great music and enjoy some free refreshments.

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