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Carl Sandburg's Wisdom Through Humor
Obama, Sandburg and Lincoln
An Essay: The Wisdom of Carl and Paula Sandburg
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Sandburg Days Festival 2013
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
JULY 9, 2013 -- 7:00pm
The presentation is free and open to the public
(following the annual membership meeting)
and takes place at the Carl Sandburg State
Historic Site Barn at 313 E. Third St.
Gerald J. Shea, author of a book on Adda George
and Juanita Bednar's efforts to restore Sandburg's
birthplace, will return to his native Galesburg for the
July 9th lecture. Shea's presentation will include
a discussion of the
nationally recognized historic site, and the story
of how it all came to be. Shea is a
1967 Galesburg High School graduate, and earned a
bachelor’s degree in English education from
Western Illinois University in 1971 and a master’s
degree from WIU in 1975.
Light Refreshments will be
served.
The Carl Sandburg State Historic Site is
now open for the season!
ATTENTION ALL MEMBERS
Annual Membership Meeting
Carl Sandburg State Historic
Site Barn
AGENDA ITEMS
Annual Reports
2012-2013
Election of Board of Directors 2013-2014
Proposed Amendment to By-Laws - Gift Acceptance
Send any comments to
membership@sandburg.org
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Special Presentation
by Gerald Shea, 7:30pm
“The History and Significance of the
Carl Sandburg Birthplace to Galesburg."
Gerald Shea,
author, educator & Sandburg Site historian
Carl Sandburg Historic Site Association
The Carl Sandburg
Historic Site Association is a
501(c)(3) tax exempt organization.
Donations and contributions are
tax-deductible as allowed by law.
Thursday-Sunday, 9am-5pm
Next
Songbag Concert
Saturday, August 24, 2013
Saturday,
August 24, 2013
TBA
Songbag
Concert 2013 Schedule
Penny
Parade 2014 -
TBA
Penny Parade 2013
- $3,134.36
Penny Parade 2012
-
$2,189.52
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.
The
Day Carl Sandburg Died
(available
on DVD - $24.99 +shipping/handling)
Price: $24.99 plus $5.00 shipping/handling
PBS released the DVD for purchase on September 25,
2012. |
Galesburg locations selling DVDs of Paul Bonesteel's- "The
Day Carl Sandburg Died",
$24.99
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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. It's a perfect introduction to Carl Sandburg, his admiration for Abraham Lincoln, and what he means to America. $15.00 + 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 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
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SPRING 2013 Songbag Concert Series Spring 2013 Songbag Concert series
We are grateful to John Heasly who has coordinated the Songbag Concert Series for so many years for the Association. |
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Contact the Carl Sandburg Historic Site Association: carl@sandburg.org Suggest performers or get information about the Songbag Concert Series: heasly@frontiernet.net |
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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. |
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 © 2013 by the Carl Sandburg Historic Site Association.