Carl Sandburg Historic Site Association

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At this time, The Carl Sandburg State Historic Site is only open for special events such as festivals, meetings, concerts and lectures. Our 2010 Spring hours will be announced when they are finalized. We hope to resume 4-day-a-week operation as soon as possible. Please encourage Governor Pat Quinn to do so.

We have a lot of special events planned and you are welcome to all of them.

• Saturday, March 27, 2010. Songbag Concert featuring Dan Zahn and Kate Moretti, traditional folk and blues and more. 7pm. Carl Sandburg Historic Site Visitors' Center, 313 E. Third St., Galesburg. $3 donation requested.
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• Sunday, March 28, 2010. Lecture: Gerald Shea: author of Adda and Juanita: “The discovery and restoration of the Carl Sandburg Birthplace.” 1pm. Carl Sandburg Historic Site Visitors' Center, 313 E. Third St. Galesburg. Free.

We will be open the weekend of the 2010 Sandburg Days Festival For the Mind, April 22-25, 2010 and have the following special events scheduled:

• Thursday, April 22, 2010. Kickoff reception featuring the 21st Century Premiere of a recently discovered and restored 1953 broadcast interview with Carl Sandburg. . 7pm. Carl Sandburg Visitors' Center, 313 E. Third St. Galesburg. Free.
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• Saturday, April 24, 2010. Songbag Concert featuring blues artists Joe and Vicki Price. 7pm. Carl Sandburg Visitors' Center Barn, 313 E. Third St. Galesburg. $3 donation requested.
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• Sunday, April 25, 2010. Lecture: "Omer N. Custer: Portrait of a Small-town Political Boss" by Lowell Peterson. 7pm. Carl Sandburg Visitors' Center Barn, 313 E. Third St., Galesburg. Free.

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.

If you were looking for the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site in North Carolina, please go to http://www.nps.gov/carl

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