Carl Sandburg Historic Site Association

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The Carl Sandburg State Historic Site will be open Saturdays December 5 and 19, 2009 from 10am until 4pm and for special events such as meetings, concerts and lectures. Our 2010 Spring hours will be announced a soon as they are finalized. We hope to resume 5-day-a-week operation eventually. Please encourage Governor Pat Quinn to do so.

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. Click here for a map and access to directions.

Next door is the Visitor's Center. 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, his wife, Lilian, and two daughters, Margaret and Janet, are buried.

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