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.

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

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.

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.

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.

`` He wanted Mr. Sandburg to pose with one of the guitars he had displayed behind glass in the center of his shop, but the poet eyed this somewhat distastefully.

Sandburg with his wife, whom he called Paula, raised three daughters.

According to the author Carl Sandburg, the abolitionist Benjamin Wade of Ohio said the Southern senator was " a Hebrew with Egyptian principles ", as he represented slaveholders.

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 ).

There he struck up a what turned out to be a lifelong friendship with Chicago poet Carl Sandburg, who frequently mentions him in his book, American Songbag ( 1927 ).

She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry ( known then as the Columbia University Prize ) in 1919 for her collection The Old Road to Paradise, sharing the prize with Carl Sandburg, who won for his collection Corn Huskers.

After WLW and WLWT's executive vice president took a position with Chicago broadcast giants WGN Radio and WGN-TV in 1956, Bell, Phillips and the show's writer / director / producer Don Sandburg came along, producing their own variety series, which included " The Wally Phillips Show " and " Midnight Ticker.

Frank W. Hoffmann, in Arts and Entertainment Fads, described McKuen's poetry as " tailor-made for the 1960s [...] poetry with a verse that drawled in country cadences from one shapeless line to the next, carrying the rusticated innocence of a Carl Sandburg thickened by the treacle of a man who preferred to prettify the world before he described it.

He appeared Off-Broadway in Burnt Piano for HB Playwrights Theatre and with Uta Hagen in a television adaptation of Norman Corwin's The World of Carl Sandburg.

In 2011, the Relay For Life of Virginia Tech was the university that raised the most money online and Carl Sandburg High School in Orland Park, IL was the highest grossing all-youth high school event in the nation with just over $ 405, 000.

He also tours with a show titled, Sandburg to Smith-Smith to Sandburg, which combines the work of both poets with live jazz.

By 1965, Rayner's clown character, along with " Sandy ", played by Don Sandburg, were added to Larry Harmon's Bozo coloring books.

Sullivan toured the US with Bette Davis in theatrical readings of the poetry of Carl Sandburg and starred opposite her in the 1951 film Payment on Demand.

Other awards with which he was honored included the Carl Sandburg Award, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, the Paterson Poetry Prize, the 1990 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Vermont Governor's Medal and the Whiting Award.

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

Sandburg parlor with piano ; the Sandburgs were devotees of singing and musical instruments.

Sandburg dining room with 1950s television set, used mainly for news and public affairs programs

Mr. and Mrs. Sandburg lived there along with their three daughters, Margaret, Janet, and Helga, as well as Helga ’ s two children, John Carl and Karlen Paula.

Carl Sandburg College, based in Galesburg, Illinois, has a satellite campus located on the north side of Carthage.

The Kewanee Amtrak station serves trains on the on Carl Sandburg and Illinois Zephyr daily.

Carl Sandburg's boyhood home is now operated by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency as the Carl Sandburg State Historic Site.

Amtrak, the national passenger rail system, provides service to Galesburg, operating the California Zephyr, Carl Sandburg, Illinois Zephyr, and Southwest Chief daily in both directions between Chicago and points west from Galesburg ( Amtrak station ).

Carl Sandburg followed Austin as Illinois next poet laureate.

* The Illinois Zephyr ( 380 / 383 ) and the Carl Sandburg ( 381 / 382, added 30 October 2006 ): Chicago to Quincy

* 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

Between Chicago and Galesburg, Illinois, this train service uses the same double track ( BNSF, old CB & Q ) as three other Amtrak routes: the California Zephyr, the Southwest Chief, and the Carl Sandburg.

The Galesburg to Quincy route ( old CB & Q Quincy / Hannibal branch ) is only served by the Illinois Zephyr and the Carl Sandburg.

During fiscal year 2011, both the Illinois Zephyr and Carl Sandburg carried a combined 225, 000 passengers, a 6. 9 % increase over FY2010.

The Illinois Zephyr and the Carl Sandburg trainsets continue to cross the Mississippi River to layover between runs.

During 2010, Amtrak contacted officials from communities in northeastern Missouri and western Illinois regarding the feasibility of extending the Illinois Zephyr and Carl Sandburg southwards to Hannibal, Missouri and St. Louis.

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.

The community produced numerous writers and journalists, of whom the most famous was poet-historian Carl Sandburg from Illinois.

Before creating the album, Stevens read literature by Illinois authors Saul Bellow and Carl Sandburg, and studied immigration records and history books for the state — he made the deliberate decision to avoid current events and focused on historical themes.

Other allusions to the state's people, places, and events include the Black Hawk War, author Carl Sandburg, Stephen A. Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, the Sangamon River, the Chicago Cubs, the Sears Tower dubbed " Seer's Tower " ( now called Willis Tower ), and the localities of Jacksonville, Peoria, Metropolis, Savanna Caledonia, Secor, Magnolia, Kankakee, Evansville, and the several locations named Centerville, Illinois.