Sandburg Festival Honors Galesburg Native for 20th Straight Year

Carl_SandburgThe 20th Annual Carl Sandburg Festival is scheduled to take place this week, with events starting tomorrow.

This year’s festival will feature five days of literary, history, and children’s events for the community in Galesburg.

Sandburg days is an honor to the man himself—Carl Sandburg, who was a Galesburg born two-time Pulitzer Prize winning poet and Abraham Lincoln biographer.

A number of featured speakers will be present throughout the week, including appearances by best-selling author Jennifer Niven, poetry slam movement founder Marc K. Smith, and internationally acclaimed painter and sculptor Lonnie Eugene Stewart.

Stewart had a hand in an additional event taking place this year as well. A near 10-foot tall Sandburg sculpture designed by Stewart will be dedicated in a groundbreaking ceremony at Galesburg’s Central Park Wednesday morning.

Writer’s workshops, a five-mile bike ride, and dedication of the Sandburg Historical Site as a literary landmark are just a few of the scheduled events.

Sandburg College, the Galesburg Public Library, the Civic Art Center, and Knox College are all event hosts this year.

The festival will conclude Saturday evening.

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