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Carl Sandburg Poems, Bio, Timeline, Gallery NEW!
Carl Sandburg's Wisdom Through Humor
Obama, Sandburg and Lincoln
An Essay: The Wisdom of Carl and Paula Sandburg
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)
by Julian Yanover
by Walter G. Moss (pdf)
by Walter G. Moss
(pdf)
by Walter G. Moss (pdf)
In Memoriam
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Sandburg Days Festival 2017
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The Carl Sandburg
Historic Site Association is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt
organization. Donations and contributions are tax-deductible
as allowed by law.
Helga Sandburg Crile
1918-2014
On Sunday evening, January
26, 2014, Helga Sandburg Crile, died in Cleveland
Heights, Ohio at the age of 95. Helga was the
youngest of three daughters of Carl & Lilian
Steichen Sandburg.
We invite you to
click anywhere within this announcement and read
the beautiful obituary penned by Helga's daughter,
Paula Steichen Polega.
Penelope Niven
1939-2014
Penelope Niven, 75, acclaimed
biographer of
Carl Sandburg dies in Winston-Salem,
North Carolina,
Thursday, August 28, 2014
In Memoriam
Charles "Chuck" J. Bednar
March 7, 1936 - September 18, 2018
It is with great sadness that
we announce the death of Charles "Chuck" Bednar.
His mother, Juanita, was a driving force in the
purchase, restoration and early operations of Carl
Sandburg's birthplace cottage. Chuck
followed in her footsteps and was involved with
the Site and its support group over the years.
After returning to Galesburg in retirement, Chuck
served six years on the Board of Directors of the
Carl Sandburg Historic Site Association and as
President (2011-2014). The impressive 9-foot
statue of Carl Sandburg centrally located in
Galesburg's downtown was realized due to Chuck's
visionary leadership. He had a great
knowledge of Sandburg and American history and
literature. Chuck will be deeply
missed.
In Memoriam
Helen
"Tede" Verner
March 8, 1937 - Feburary 1, 2019
"Tede" was involved with the
Carl Sandburg Historic Site and member of the
CSHSA board for many years. She will be missed.
Thank you, Tede, for your years of service to so
many!
Obituary
https://www.h-p-w.com/notices/MissHelenTede-Verner
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In Memoriam Stanford Shover September 9, 1927 - December 17, 2019 |
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Stanford
Shover, former board member of the Carl Sandburg
Historic Site Association. Stan was passionate
about all things Carl Sandburg. Much of the
success of the Penny Parades in the last decade
can be attributed to the seeds he sowed within the
Abingdon community to support the Sandburg State
Historic Site. Thank you Stan, for a life
well-lived.
Obituary |
Carl Sandburg Historic Site Association
P.O. Box 585 | 313 E. Third St. | Galesburg, Illinois 61402-0585 |309-342-2361
Reflection
Dusty Scott (2017) - Acrylic on canvas
(With
permission of the artist-To see full image click on the
image above)
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.
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Historic Site Thur, Fri, Sun 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm Saturdays 10:00 am - 5:00 pm Mask Policy Revised (February 28, 2022) Wearing of a mask or face covering is no longer required for entry to the Barn, Cottage, and Visitor's Center. We look forward to welcoming visitors once again! |
** NOTICE **
Annual Membership Meeting
Tuesday, August 9, 2022, 6:00pm
The Barn at the Sandburg State Historic Site
Note to our
Site Visitors
The Carl Sandburg State Historic
Site will be CLOSED Saturday, August 13, 2022.
Knox County's Hidden Hills Winery & Vineyard
reveals their newest wine in honor of Galesburg's
native son,
Carl Sandburg and the Carl Sandburg
HIstoric Site Association!
Thank you David, Chancy & Holly for your support!!
Check out the Hidden Hills website for a video of the presentation!
A donation of $5.00 per
person is suggested as the door (or gate)
entry fee. These door receipts go to the
Songbag Concert performers to supplement a base
amount paid by the Carl Sandburg Historic Site
Association. If you enjoy the concert,
please be generous in support of our performers.
Songbag Concert Series performers and
refreshment costs are underwritten by the Carl
Sandburg Historic Site Association and its
members at a cost of approximately $2,500 per
year. If you would like to support the Songbag
Concert Series, become a member of the
Association, and/or you are always welcome to make a donation
to the
Sunday, Aug 14, 2022, 2-4pm
David G. Smith
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Second Sundays Sandburg
Songbag Concert Series
Second Sundays of each month
NEXT CONCERT
Sunday, August 14, 2022
2-4pm
Sandburg Songbag Concerts
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David G. Smith
Sunday, August 14, 2022
2-4pm
David G. Smith is an American
singer-songwriter, guitarist and keyboardist.
He splits his time between his native state of
Iowa and Nashville, TN in addition to touring.
Smith donates his time and raises money for
various charitable organizations through his
Give-Back Series. His songs have received
national radio play and he continues to
perform in clubs and concert halls across
America.
Carl
Sandburg Historic Site Association, PO Box 585,
Galesburg, IL 61402-0585.
Songbag
Concerts - 2021
Songbag
Concerts - 2020
Songbag
Concerts - 2019
Songbag Concerts - Fall 2018
Songbag Concerts - Spring 2018
Songbag Concerts - Fall 2017
Songbag Concerts - Spring 2017
Songbag Concerts - Fall 2016
Songbag Concert Spring 2016
Songbag
Concert Fall 2015
Songbag
Concert Spring 2015
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Carl Sandburg: Poet, Politician & Prophet by Dr. Lawrence Webb (2022)
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Thank you to those of you who were able to join us
for a delightful book-signing event with former
CSHSA President Barry Swanson upon the
publication of his historical novel, Still Points!
Thursday, April 28, 2-4pm
Copies of STILL POINTS are available at our Museum Store.
| Zoom Recording Available if you missed this informative presentation with Dr. Quinley. |
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Carl Sandburg Historic Site Association |
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Annual "Giving Tuesday"
Fundraiser
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Carl Sandburg Historic
Site Association Officers & Board of Directors 2021-2022 (as of March, 2022) |
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| Pat Kane, president | Erin Glasnovich |
| Don Moffitt, vice-pres. | Mike Hobbs |
| Mike Panther, secretary | Joey Lucero |
| J. Richard Sayre, treas. | Nicholas Regiacorte |
| Melissa Bednar | Seamus Reilly |
| Andrew Chernin | Gary Wagle |
| Emily DuGranrut | Bryan Englebrecht, ex-officio (Site Services Specialist II) |
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Annual Penny Parade Fundraiser Scheduled for April 2023
After a four-year hiatus plans are in process for the 2023 Penny Parade Fundraiser with the help of our Galesburg area schools. Pennies collected by our Galesburg area students will be accepted. There will be a program for the students representing their schools at the Sandburg site. We sincerely appreciate all of the support we receive from our area schools! ------------- Congratulations
on an awesome Penny Parade 2019! A tradition started in 1961, the Association and IDNR held the culmination of the annual Penny Parade Fundraiser or April 25. Students and the community turned in pennies and other donations collected primarily at area schools. Attendees, primarily students, participated in a variety of activities. Students from Silas Ward Elementary School presented “The Wedding Procession of the Rag Doll and the Broom Handle and Who Was in It.” Thank you to all who contributed and came to this important fundraiser!
Photos on Facebook from the Penny Parade 2019 Program. Emcee Mike Panther, Musician Erin Glasnovich, Student presentations from several of the schools representing Hedding (Abingdon), Gale, Galesburg Christian, King, Nielson, Silas Willard, and Steele! Thanks to all!!
Penny Parade 2019 - $1,118.33 (as of 5/14/2019) Penny Parade 2013 - $3,134.36 Penny Parade 2012 - $2,189.52 Contributions may also be mailed to: Penny Parade 2019 Carl Sandburg Historic Site Association PO Box 585 Galesburg, IL 61402-0585 |
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Illinois Turns 200 - Bicentennial Podcast Series  |
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Illinois Turns
200: Galesburg Edition Sunday, November 4
at 2:00 pm Carl Sandburg State
Historic Site 313 E 3rd St. Galesburg, IL 61401 The episode explores an
ongoing debate about which window Abraham Lincoln
used as an exit from Knox College’s Old Main; the
role played by Galesburg’s founders in the
Underground Railroad; the Boxcar People from
Mexico who worked on the rails and created a
community in the early twentieth century; the
early career of the inventor of modern advertising
Earnest Elmo Caulkins; current efforts to
revitalize downtown through local businesses and
culture; the creation of a recent community by
Congolese immigrants; and, of course, the life and
career of poet, historian, and journalist Carl
Sandburg.
Programs are free and
open to the public. Seating is limited.
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Featuring 8-year old Nakshatra Neeraja reciting "I Am the People" |
| From Kuwait: First Prize for English Poem Recitation to 8-year old Nakshatra Neeraja performing Carl Sandburg's "I Am the People". This youtube video was shared with us by Nakshatra's proud father. Thank you Dr. Binu! Thank you, Nakshatra, for a wonderful performance! ENJOY! |
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Native Son, National
Treasure Endowment Campaign Carl Sandburg Historic Site Association |
 THANK YOU! With all of the challenges facing museums and historic sites in Illinois, it is time to redouble our efforts to protect the Carl Sandburg State Historic Site and the legacy of our native son and national treasure. To accomplish this goal, the Carl Sandburg Historic Site Association (CSHSA) was chosen by the Galesburg Community Foundation (GCF) to participate in an Endowment Match Program. Prior to the June 30, 2016 deadline the CSHSA raised just over $12,000 toward an endowment to support the Historic Site and the GCF has matched our efforts with the $10,000 matching grant. This is our initial effort to start an endowment and we hope to see it grow to a point where the interest from the endowment will be significant enough to enrich the Carl Sandburg Historic Site in the future. Thank you, especially, to the Galesburg Community Foundation for their efforts and support for preserving the heritage and history of Galesburg. CURRENT ENDOWMENT TOTAL $38,055 (as of 3/31/2022) |
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Donations may be mailed to: The Carl Sandburg Historic Site Association P.O. Box 585 Galesburg, IL 61402-0585 To send a donation online use the following Donate button: |
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New to the Museum Store Beautiful Hand-thrown Stoneware Mugs custom-made by Deneen Pottery, St. Paul, MN Two glaze options: 1) Hunter Green with dijon white, and 2) Navy with Grey white $19.95 each + shipping Contact the Museum Bookstore [Email: sales@sandburg.org or Phone: 309-342-2361] |
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New to the Museum Bookstore!
Carl Sandburg: Galesburg and Beyond by George Swank 2016 limited reprint edition Originally Published in 1983 by the Galva Historical Society. $23.95 +shipping +tax |
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The
Day Carl Sandburg Died Produced and Directed by Paul Bonesteel PBS �2012 Available on DVD @ $24.99 +shipping +tax |
 A Visit with Carl Sandburg (DVD)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. It's a perfect introduction to Carl Sandburg, his admiration for Abraham Lincoln, and what he means to America. $12.00 + $5.00 shipping & tax |
The
Carl Sandburg State Historic Site, 331 E. Third St., Galesburg,
Illinois, is open from 9am until 5pm on Thursdays through Sundays,
April through November, 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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Special Events at the Carl Sandburg Visitors' Center |
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We are grateful to Erin Glasnovich and members of CSHSA's Songbag Committee for coordinating the Sandburg Songbag Concert Series this year for the Association.
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Contact the Carl Sandburg Historic Site Association: Suggest performers or get information about the Songbag Concert Series: carl@sandburg.org |
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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 on the CSHSA Website.
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 2015 by the Carl Sandburg Historic Site Association.