A group of American archivists and researchers that included John A. Lomax, his son Alan Lomax, poet Carl Sandburg, musician and activist Pete Seeger and others collected, recorded, and published old ballads, prison songs, Appalachian folk music and black blues.

Throughout the years, The Progressive has published leading social critics such as Jane Addams, Helen Keller, Jack London, Clarence Darrow, Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens, Carl Sandburg, George Orwell, Mike Males, A. J.

Contributors included: William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Mina Loy, Ezra Pound, Conrad Aiken, Carl Sandburg, T. S. Eliot, Amy Lowell, H. D., Djuna Barnes, Man Ray, Skipwith Cannell, Lola Ridge, Marcel Duchamp, and Fenton Johnson ( poet ) ( the only African American published in the magazine ).

Sandburg spent the last twenty-two years of his life on this farm and published more than a third of his works while he resided here.

The development of these idioms, as well as more conservative reactions against them, can be traced through the works of poets such as Edwin Arlington Robinson ( 1869 – 1935 ), Stephen Crane ( 1871 – 1900 ), Robert Frost ( 1874 – 1963 ) and Carl Sandburg ( 1878 – 1967 ).

He jokingly told the press he believed Carl Sandburg and Isak Dinesen deserved the prize more than he, but that the prize money would be welcome.

Though a Midwesterner, Sandburg and his family moved to this home in 1945 for the peace and solitude required for his writing and the more than of pastureland required for his wife, Lilian, to raise her champion dairy goats.

In addition, more than of personal belongings, primarily Sandburg ’ s library, were sent by train from their old house in Harbert, Michigan.

Today the Carl Sandburg National Historic site attracts more than 26, 000 visitors a year, most of whom come during the leaf season.

Mark Twain, E. Lynn Harris, Zane Grey, Upton Sinclair, Carl Sandburg, Edgar Rice Burroughs, George Bernard Shaw, Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman and Anaïs Nin also self-published some or all of their works.

The street names of Huntington are derived from the works of Carl Sandburg, and those of Macgill's Common come from the Folksongs of North America compilation recorded by Alan Lomax.

Street names are taken from the works of Carl Sandburg, and Ralph Waldo Emerson.

The issue featured works from E. E. Cummings, Gaston Lachaise, and Carl Sandburg.

Carl Sandburg rented a room in this house where he lived for three years while he wrote the poem " Chicago ".

Sandburg moved to Chicago in 1912 after living in Milwaukee, where he had served as secretary to Emil Seidel, Milwaukee's Socialist mayor.

As Sandburg said at the time: `` It is as ancient as the medieval European ballads brought to the Appalachian Mountains, it is as modern as skyscrapers, the Volstead Act, and the latest oil well gusher ''.

Sandburg volunteered to go to the military and was stationed in Puerto Rico with the 6th Illinois Infantry during the Spanish – American War, disembarking at Guánica, Puerto Rico on July 25, 1898.

Sandburg met Lilian Steichen at the Social Democratic Party office in 1907, and they married the next year.

The Sandburg house at 331 W. York Street, Elmhurst was demolished and the site is now a parking lot.

During the Spanish-American War, the founding of Camp Russell A. Alger brought growth and prosperity to Dunn Loring, and among the troops trained at Camp Alger was the celebrated author-poet Carl Sandburg, after whom the present Sandburg Street was named.

A poem by Bodenheim featured in the 1917 Others: An Anthology of the New Verse, which also included poems by such future luminaries as T. S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Carl Sandburg, and William Carlos Williams, and Wallace Stevens ' " Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird ".

Hope Loring, Louis D. Lighton and George Marion Jr. ( titles ) wrote the screenplay and Carl Sandburg noted that Glyn's magazine story was " not at all like the film, not like it in any respect.

The Sandburg Halls at University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee consists of four high rise towers, with the tallest being the northern most tower reaching tall ( building ), and ( radio antenna ).

* The California Zephyr ( 5 / 6 ) to Emeryville, California outside Oakland and Southwest Chief ( 3 / 4 ) to Los Angeles: along the Illinois Zephyr / Carl Sandburg before splitting off at Galesburg

After graduating from Carl Sandburg High School, he attended Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and University of Illinois at Chicago where he majored in history and theater.

Poet Carl Sandburg wrote a poem on the monument, Slants at Buffalo, New York, beginning: " A forefinger of stone, dreamed by a sculptor, points to the sky.

Exhibit station at the start of the trail to the Sandburg Home

Most rooms, including the study at the Sandburg home abound with books and periodicals.

From June until mid-August, live performances of Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories and excerpts from the Broadway play, The World of Carl Sandburg, are presented at the park amphitheater.

Although the Armstrong Swim teams practices at Plymouth and Cooper swim teams practice at Sandburg, both teams hold their home meets at Plymouth Middle School.

Other notable historic sites in Henderson County include: the Woodfield Inn ( 1852 ), Connemara -- final home of Carl Sandburg ( originally known as Rock Hill, the home of CSA Secretary of the Treasury Christopher Memminger ) -- and the St. John in the Wilderness Episcopal Church.

Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site, located near Hendersonville in the village of Flat Rock, North Carolina, preserves Connemara Farms, the home of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and writer Carl Sandburg.

Visitors to the site can tour the Sandburg residence and visit the dairy barn housing Connemara Farms ' goat herd, representing the three breeds of goats Lillian Sandburg raised.

Sandburg purchased Connemara on October 18, 1945 for $ 45, 000.

In due time Sandburg was a walking thesaurus of American folk music.

While the picture was taken, Mr. Miller's disposition to be generous to Mr. Sandburg increased to the point where he advised, ' I won't even charge you the one dollar rental fee ' ''.

Lloyd Lewis wrote that when he first knew Carl in 1916, Sandburg was making $27.50 a week writing features for the Day Book and eating sparse luncheons in one-arm restaurants.

Mrs. Sandburg received a Phi Beta Kappa key from the University of Chicago and she was busy writing and teaching when she met Sandburg.

Carl was still Charles A. Sandburg.

He was personal friends with such literary figures as T. S. Eliot and Carl Sandburg.

Carl Sandburg ( January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967 ) was an American writer and editor, best known for his poetry.

Sandburg was born in Galesburg, Illinois, to parents of Swedish ancestry.

Sandburg was never actually called to battle.

He attended the Salt Lake Collegiate Institute, transferring to Knox College, in Galesburg, Illinois, where he was a friend of Carl Sandburg, joined Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, and graduated in 1895.

The creature's face was inspired by the faces of Carl Sandburg, Albert Einstein and Ernest Hemingway.

Carl Sandburg wrote, " McClellan was the man of the hour, pointed to by events, and chosen by an overwhelming weight of public and private opinion.

After the Civil War, Galesburg was the birthplace of poet, author, and historian Carl Sandburg, poet and artist Dorothea Tanning, and former Major League Baseball star Jim Sundberg.

The site contains the cottage Sandburg was born in, a modern museum, the rock under which he and his wife Lilian are buried, and a performance venue.

It was once the home of poet Carl Sandburg.

He also hosted a radio show, Your Ballad Man, in 1949 that was broadcast nationwide on the Mutual Radio Network and featured a highly eclectic program, from gamelan music, to Django Reinhardt, to Klezmer music, to Sidney Bechet and Wild Bill Davison, to jazzy pop songs by Maxine Sullivan and Jo Stafford, to readings of the poetry of Carl Sandburg, to hillbilly music with electric guitars, to Finnish brass bands – to name a few.

The latter show served as a " fall preview " for NBC-TV's 1969 – 1970 Saturday morning lineup, and was produced by Don Sandburg ( who was best known to Chicago-area TV viewers as " Sandy the Tramp " from WGN-TV's Bozo's Circus ) for NBC-TV.