Famous Americans by Danilov Victor J

Author:Danilov, Victor J. [Danilov, Victor J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scarecrow Press Inc.
Published: 2013-06-14T16:00:00+00:00

The final home of Carl Sandburg, located in Flat Rock, North Carolina. Courtesy of the National Park Service, Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site.

The Sandburg family moved to Harbert, Michigan, in 1930 and then purchased the 1838 Connemara Farms in Flat Rock, North Carolina, in 1945. Sandburg updated the historic farm and spent his last 22 year at the site, which provided the solitude he sought for writing and the more than 30 acres wanted for his wife’s champion Chikaming dairy goats. He wrote over one-third of his works while living there, including the novel Remembrance Rock (1948), the prize-wining Complete Poems and New American Songbag (1950), the autobiographical Always the Young Stranger (1953), Wing Song (1960), and Honey and Salt (1963). Sandburg died of natural causes at the age of 79 in 1967, and his wife sold the farm to the federal government to preserve it as a memorial to Sandburg. It became the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site in 1968 and opened to the public in 1974. Since then, the site has been expanded to 264 acres, and a visitor center has been added.

The historic site has 32 structures. Among the site’s features are the Sandburg residence, a dairy farm with about 15 prized goats, a barn, sheds, rolling pastures, mountainside woods, hiking trails, two small lakes, several ponds, flower and vegetable gardens, and an apple orchard. Guided tours are offered of the house, which is furnished the way it was during the 1950s. It has over 65,000 objects on display, including Sandburg’s working library, books, letters, papers, and photographs. The site also has exhibits on Sandburg’s life and career, live performances are given of Sandburg’s Rootabaga Stories, and excerpts from the Broadway play The World of Carl Sandburg are presented at the amphitheater from June to mid-August. The historic site’s annual attendance is 100,000.

Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site, 81 Carl Sandburg Lane, Flat Rock, NC 28731-8635. Phone: 828/693-4178. Fax: 828/693-4179. E-mail: [email protected]. Website: www.nps.gov/carl. Hours: 9–5 daily; closed Christmas. Admission: grounds—free; house tour—adults, $5; seniors, $3; children under 16, free.

Carl Sandburg State Historic Site. The three-room home where poet and author Carl Sandburg was born in 1878 and an adjacent small park and garden are a state historic site in Galesburg, Illinois. The cottage contains Sandburg family and period furnishings, memorabilia, and the writer’s works and has a visitor center with artifacts, exhibits, and videos about Sandburg. The flowers in the garden surround “Remembrance Rock,” where the ashes of Carl Sandburg; his wife, Lillian; and two daughters, Margaret and Janet, are buried.

The historic site is supported by the State of Illinois and the nonprofit Carl Sandburg Historic Site Association. The association, which planned and funded the garden, also sponsors the “Penny Parade,” which brings school children to the site; offers band and folk music concerts on the grounds and in the visitor center; and is a participating sponsor of the Sandburg Day Festival every April. The site’s annual attendance is 16,000.

Carl Sandburg State Historic Site, 313 E.

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