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Other Readings & Related Websites

Carl Sandburg's Wisdom Through Humor
by Walter G. Moss (pdf)

Obama, Sandburg and Lincoln
by Walter G. Moss (pdf)

An Essay: The Wisdom of Carl and Paula Sandburg
by Walter G. Moss (pdf)

Galesburg Railroad Museum

Read all the entries in the 2003 Sandburg Days Memoir-Writing Contest, or the 2002 ones, or the 2001 ones, or the winning entries in the 2000 contest.

Carl Sandburg Historic Site - articles from Galesburg Register-Mail (Nov 2007 - present)


Sandburg's Hometown, by Barbara Schock
...but wait...there's more...online
Sandburg's Hometown
Articles by Barbara Schock to GalesburgPlanet.com
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NEW LOCATION for Sandburg's Hometown
Now on our website:  http://www.sandburg.org/SandburgsHometown/

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Sandburg Days Festival 2012
April 17-20, 2013



The Carl Sandburg Historic Site Association is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization.  Donations and contributions are tax-deductible as allowed by law.

Carl Sandburg Historic Site Association
P.O. Box 585
313 E. Third St.
Galesburg, Illinois 61402-0585
309-342-2361
The Carl Sandburg Historic Site Association is a
501(c)(3) tax exempt organization.  Donations and contributions are tax-deductible as allowed by law.

Our State Historic Site is now open for the season!
Thursday-Sunday, 9am-5pm

Sandburg Days 2012

Next Songbag Concert
Saturday, May 25, 2013

Saturday,
May 25, 2013
The Wacky Keys
The Wacky Keys are a 3-piece Hawaiian band playing Hawaiian music, pop tunes, swing tunes, Jamaican tunes, Jimmy Rogers tunes, and pretty much anything.
Songbag Concert 2013 Schedule



Penny Parade 2013
Thursday, January 24, 2013
$3,134.36
(as of 3/31/2013)

Thank you to all participating Galesburg & Abingdon schools!!

A special thanks to the contributions of Galesburg businesses: Baked, Blick Art Materials, Cherry Street Restaurant, & Q's Cafe.

Penny Parade 2012 Proceeds:  $2,189.52

Sandburg's Hometown, by Barbara Schock
NEW!
Sandburg's Hometown

by Barbara Schock
Now on our CSHSA website
http://www.sandburg.org/SandburgsHometown/

SandburgsHometown/SandburgsHometown_Thinking.html
Sandburg's Hometown - 2013 Articles
Date Title
May 20, 2013 Professor Jon W. Grubb
May 13, 2013 Beginnings of Lombard University
May 6, 2013 Young Sandburg's View of Lombard College
April 29, 2013 Thinking
April 22, 2013 Robert Colville, Master Mechanic
April 15, 2013 Galesburg Opera House
April 8, 2013 Grocery Stores and Sample Rooms
April 1, 2013  A Hearty  Breakfast 
March 25, 2013  The Lost Wallpaper Legend 
March 18, 2013 Martin G. Sandburg
March 4, 2013 The Edison Talking Machine
February 25, 2013 Joe Elser, Civil War Veteran
February 18, 2013 Remember the Maine...
February 11, 2013 Lincoln's Birthday
February 4, 2013 Curiosity

The Day Carl Sandburg Died
(available on DVD)
The Day Carl Sandburg Died


PBS released the DVD for purchase on September 25, 2012.
Copies are available at the Museum Store in the Carl Sandburg Historic Site's Visitor Center
OR at any of the following Galesburg locations for $24.99
Email: sales@sandburg.org or call 309-342-2361.

Galesburg locations selling DVDs of Paul Bonesteel's- "The Day Carl Sandburg Died",  $24.99
beginning September 25, 2012.


Carl Sandburg College Bookstore, Galesburg Campus, Building "B", 341-5259

Mon. - Thur.  8:30AM - 6PM, Fri.  8:30AM - 1PM, closed Sat. & Sun.

Convention & Visitors Bureau, 2163 E. Main St., 343-2485
Mon. - Fri. 8AM - 4:30PM,  Sat. & Sun., 11AM - 3PM

Galesburg Civic Art Center, 114 E. Main St.,  342-7415
Tues. - Fri. 10:30AM - 4:30PM,  Sat. 10:30AM - 3PM, closed Sun. & Mon.

Knox College Bookstore, basement of Seymour Union, 341-7344
Mon. - Thur. 9AM - 5PM, Fri. 9AM - 4:15PM, Sat. - 11AM- 3PM, closed Sun.

Stone Alley Books & Collectibles, 53 S. Seminary St., 351-7344

Mon. -Sat. 10AM - 6PM. closed Sun.

Carl Sandburg State Historical Site, Visitor's Center, 313 E. Third Street, 342-2361
Thur. - Sun. 9AM - 5PM, closed Mon. - Wed.

"The Day Carl Sandburg Died" will be broadcast on PBS,  American Master's, Monday, September 24, 9PM,  WTVP, Channel 12

 

Carl Sandburg's Birthplace in Galesburg, Illinois
The Carl Sandburg State Historic Site, 331 E. Third St., Galesburg, Illinois, is open from 9am until 5pm on Thursdays through Sundays, April through October, and for special events such as festivals, meetings, concerts and lectures. Even when we are not open, you are welcome to browse in our garden or meditate at Remembrance Rock.

If you come by car or have an FM radio with you, tune to 88.7 and listen to a brief presentation about Carl Sandburg and the Historic Site. Three audio segments rotate: a short biography narrated by Rick Heath; a tribute to Carl Sandburg by President Lyndon B. Johnson and Sandburg's Grammy Award-winning narration of Aaron Copland's "A Lincoln Portrait." Enjoy them all.

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The Carl Sandburg State Historic Site Hours
May - October
Thursday - Sundays
9:00 am - 5:00 pm




Special Events at the Carl Sandburg Visitors' Center

SPRING 2013 Songbag Concert Series

Spring 2013 Songbag Concert series
Date Performer
Saturday,
February 23, 2013
ODKG
An evening of bluegrass, blues and folk music with Mike O'Connell, Dave  "DK" Kolars and Maurie Grafton.
Saturday,
March 30, 2013
David G. Smith
Nationally known singer/songwriter who splits his time between Iowa and Nashville.
Saturday,
April 20, 2013
Sandburg Days Festival Event
A special Songbag musical performance by Chris Stevens and Ken Waldman, the fiddling poet.
Saturday,
April 27, 2013
Bovee and Heil
Since 1980 Bob & Gail have traveled the country together taking old time music to audiences of all ages.
Saturday,
May 25, 2013
The Wacky Keys
The Wacky Keys are a 3-piece Hawaiian band playing Hawaiian music, pop tunes, swing tunes, Jamaican tunes, Jimmy Rogers tunes, and pretty much anything.


We are grateful to John Heasly who has coordinated the Songbag Concert Series for so many years for the Association.

Contact the Carl Sandburg Historic Site Association: carl@sandburg.org
Suggest performers or get information about the Songbag Concert Series: heasly@frontiernet.net


A Visit with Carl Sandburg (DVD)
New DVD available.
We have transferred a recently-acquired rare 16mm film of a 1953 interview with Carl Sandburg to DVD and are making copies available to the public. Click here to read the details of "A Visit With Carl Sandburg" and get ordering information (pdf). It's a perfect introduction to Carl Sandburg, his admiration for Abraham Lincoln, and what he means to America.


Carl Sandburg Birthplace and Visitor Center

 

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 For The Mind held each April. It hosts the Songbag Concert Series of folk music concerts (and sometimes other genres) held inside the Visitor's Center "Barn" theatre in the fall, winter and spring. Details of upcoming concerts are also available at the site of the series' producer, John Heasly. The Association meets at 7pm on the second Tuesday of each month in the Visitors' Center. Guests and interested visitors are always welcome.

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

This page was last updated on 14 April 2013...jrs

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