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. This years Festival will be held April 17-21, 2013

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The Big Read

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March & April 2013

The Big Read is an initiative of the Galesburg Public Library in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts.

The book that we will be reading this year for the Big Read is "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury.

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April 17-21, 2013

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.
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