Carl+Sandburg

=Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) = =Adam, Bryce, Kanijah =

﻿Photo Story: River Moons
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Sandburg at age 50. (Photo 1)

Bio-Facts

 * Carl Sandburg was born on January 6, 1878.
 * ======He began working at 11 and held a variety of jobs such as a barbershop, milk truck driver, a backyard worker and a wheat harvest . ======
 * ======Left school at the age of 13 and did odd jobs for several years. ======
 * ======Attended West Point for two weeks, before failing a math and grammar exam. ======
 * ======Volunteered in the military and was stationed in Guánica, Puerto Rico; in 1898. ======
 * ======Graduated from Lombard College in 1903 at the age of 18. ======
 * ======When he was about 18 years old he traveled through-out the Mildwest as a hobo. ======
 * ======Moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1910 and moved out in 1912. ======
 * ======For about 10 years he was active in Socialist Party politics in Wisconsin. ======
 * ======Carl Sandburg protested against the folly and waste of war. ======
 * ======Began writing as a journalist for the Chicago Daily News. ======
 * ======Wrote Rootabaga Stories in 1922, Rootabaga Pigeons in 1923, and Potato Face in 1930. ======
 * ======<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Started writing for Good Morning,America in 1928. ======
 * ======<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wrote two biographies about Abraham Lincoln called Abraham Lincoln: the Prairie Years in 1926 and Abraham Lincoln: the War Years in 1939. ======
 * ======<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Won a Pulitzer Prize Award in 1940 for The War Years. ======
 * ======<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Won another Pulitzer Prize for his Complete Poems 1950. ======
 * ======<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">His complete poems won the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. ======
 * ======<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">He died at his home in Flat Rock, North Carolina on July 22, 1967 at the age of 89. His wife followed 10 yrs later. Both of their remains were cremated and their ashes buried at Carl Sandburg's birthplace in Galesburg, Illinois beneath a large boulder named after Carl Sandburg's first and only novel, Remembrance Rock. ======
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sandburg's home of 22 years in Flat Rock, Henderson County, NC, is preserved by the National Park Service as the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site.

<span style="color: #ff4500; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">﻿Interesting Facts

 * On January 6, 1978, the 100th anniversary of his birth, the United States Postal Service issued a commemorative stamp honoring Sandburg.
 * Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Illinois Urbana-Campaighn possesses the Carl Sandburg collection and archives.
 * Won three Pulitzer Prizes in his life.
 * Has a high school named after him, Carl Sandburg High Scool, in Oakland Park, Illinois. Also, he attended the opening in 1954.
 * Has a library named after him,Carl Sandburg Library. It first opened in Livonia, Michigan, on December 10, 1961.
 * Amtrak, in Illinois, added a second train to on the Chicago-Quincy route, called the Carl Sandburg.

Portrait of Sandburg. (Photo 2)

River Moons
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The double moon, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">one on the high backdrop of the west, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">one on the curve of the river face,

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The sky moon of fire <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">and the river moon of water, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I am taking these home in a basket <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">hung on an elbow, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">such a teeny-weeny elbow, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">in my head.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I saw them last night, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">a cradle moon, two horns of a moon, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">such an early hopeful moon, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">such a child's moon <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">for all young hearts <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">to make a picture of.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The river-I remember this like a picture- <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">the river was the upper twist <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">of a written question mark.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I know now it takes <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">many many years to write a river, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">a twist of water asking a question.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And white stars moved when the moon moved <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">and one red star kept burning, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">and the Big Dipper was almost overhead.

<span style="color: #7706f4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Dream Girl
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tender as dew, impetuous as rain, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The tan of the sun will be on your skin, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The purr of the breeze in your murmuring speech, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">You will pose with a hill-flower grace.
 * || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">You will come one day in a waver of love,

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">You will come, with your slim, expressive arms, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A poise of the head no sculptor has caught <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And nuances spoken with shoulder and neck, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Your face in a pass-and-repass of moods <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As many as skies in delicate change <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Of cloud and blue and flimmering sun.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Yet, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">You may not come, O girl of a dream, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We may but pass as the world goes by <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And take from a look of eyes into eyes, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A film of hope and a memoried day.

Carl Sandburg ||

<span style="color: #7706f4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">﻿Margaret
Many birds and the beating of wings Make a flinging reckless hum In the early morning at the rocks Above the blue pool Where the gray shadows swim lazy.

In your blue eyes, O reckless child, I saw today many little wild wishes, Eager as the great morning.

<span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Carl Sandburg
<span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">﻿ <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">﻿This quote inspires change because it talks about a nation or a society falling by civil problems or another reason. The inhabitants then move to a new area and forget that the area they left was where they came from. This might happen a lot, like in the American colonies. When the colonies gained their independence, they forgot that their ancestors didn't come from the American continent, they came from England.

Sandburg at the 1950 Pulitzer Prize Awards. (Photo 3)

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**Poems**
Sandburg, C. (1960). //Wind Song//. Chicago,IL: Henry Holt & Company, Inc.
 * River Moons + Margaret**

**Photostory**
Hammer and Nail [] First River [] Second River [] Moon and Stars [] Red Star [] Big Dipper []