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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)
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)
Carl Sandburg Historic Site Association
P.O. Box 585
Galesburg, Illinois 61402-0585
The Carl Sandburg Historic Site will be closed for the season until late April 2012.
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[From “Letters to the
Editor”, The Register-Mail
(Galesburg, Illinois), Saturday, Jan. 21,
2012, p. A5.]
Pennies are not only
welcome from community children but also from
adults and/or business of the surrounding area.
Why not visit the site that day and bring
999 cents for a membership in the association
(that’s a penny reduction from the usual $10!)?
On second thought I’d be happy to give you
a tour for ONE PENNY!
Membership also includes subscription to
Inklings and
Idlings (the newsletter of the Carl
Sandburg Historic Site Association – editor, Mike
Hobbs).
It is a wonderful source of information
regarding Sandburg, history and the rural area we
all love!
The isssues also keep subscribers informed
of current music events held in the Barn the last
Saturday of the month.
–Stan Shover, education chairman, Carl
Sandburg Birthplace
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The Carl Sandburg State Historic Site/strong>, 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.
| The Carl Sandburg Historic Site will be closed until late April 2012 |
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Special Events at the Carl Sandburg Visitors' Center |
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Spring 2012 Songbag Concert series
Saturday, Feb. 25, 7:00 p.m. at the Carl Sandburg State Historic Site Barn, 313 E. Third St. The Wacky Keys A donation of $3 per person is suggested. Refreshments will be served. _____________________ This is the first Songbag concert for the 2012 calendar year. We are grateful to John Heasly who has coordinated the Songbag Concert Series for so many years for the Association. |
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Sad news Steve Holden, former Sandburg Site Supervisor (1943-2011) - Obituary |
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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. |
As the Knox County Board debates the future of the county's historic courthouse, our board felt it was important to proclaim our support for preserving history. Click here for a pdf of the full resolution (pdf).
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
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.
Copyright © 2011 by the Carl Sandburg Historic Site Association.
Contact the Carl Sandburg Historic Site Association: carl@sandburg.org
Suggest performers or get information about the Songbag Concert Series: heasly@frontiernet.net