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P.O. Box 16, Flat Rock, NC 28731
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The Friends of Carl Sandburg at Connemara, Inc. (FOCS) is an all-volunteer, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that supports the National Park Service to promote, protect and preserve the legacy of Carl Sandburg. Click the video to hear more about the Friends, our mission, and how you can become a Friend, or (Click to read more) …
We hold and sponsor several fun events and activities for the whole family throughout the year, including Christmas at Connemara, monthly Writers Workshops, Sandburg Music Festival, Student Poetry Contest, and summertime singalongs in the amphitheater, plus support for the Connemara Farms goat herd. Click here and follow us on Facebook for information on upcoming events and more . (Click to read more) …
To learn more about visiting the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site, including tours of the home and the life and works of Carl Sandburg, click here to be directed to the National Park Service website.
To honor the legacy of Carl Sandburg and the role he played in introducing generations of children to the beauty and importance of creating, The Friends partnered with Mike Ayers of Mountain Mike’s Whetstone Woodworks to create and name our entry in the 20th annual Hendersonville Bearfootin’ Art Walk after the poet and writer himself, Carl SandBear. SandBear represents the artist in all of us, with gratitude for being able to have lived here in our beautiful area. SandBear is dedicated to the legacy of Mr. Sandburg and will hopefully inspire future poets, authors, historians, artists, musicians and humanitarians for years to come. Proceeds from the auction later this year will support the cultural and educational events at the Sandburg Home and the newly established annual scholarship funds for qualified Henderson County students. You can find Carl SandBear on the corner of 5th Avenue and Main Street in Downtown Hendersonville. Click here for more information on Bearfootin’ Bears and to download a map showing the locations of all twenty bears!
Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. During his lifetime, Sandburg was widely regarded as “a major figure in contemporary literature”, especially for volumes of his collected verse, including Chicago Poems (1916), Cornhuskers (1918), and Smoke and Steel (1920). He enjoyed “unrivaled appeal as a poet in his day, perhaps because the breadth of his experiences connected him with so many strands of American life”, and at his death in 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson observed that “Carl Sandburg was more than the voice of America, more than the poet of its strength and genius. He was America.“
To learn more about Carl Sandburg, his works, and his family, click here to be directed to the National Park Service website.
Our many supporters both individuals and businesses who are committed to the Friends’ mission. They, through farsightedness and generosity, seek to ensure that the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site will continue to be available for future generations.
focsnc@gmail.com
P.O. Box 16, Flat Rock, NC 28731
© 2021 Friends of Carl Sandburg at Connemara, Inc.