Welcome to Sandburg Festival!

The Sandburg Days Festival for the Mind is held each spring in April. Members of the Galesburg community have joined together since 1996 for a celebration of the life and legacy of Galesburg native, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Lincoln biographer--Carl Sandburg.

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The One Read

The One Read is an initiative of the Galesburg Public Library in partnership with the Galesburg Community Foundation.

The book that we will be reading this year for the One Read is "Always the Young Strangers", by Carl Sandburg.

Sandburg Days

The Sandburg Days Festival honors Galesburg-born, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Lincoln biographer, Carl Sandburg, and his family by celebrating with the community through educational and recreational activities.