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The story of North Carolina's Carl Sandburg Home, Connemara when Christopher Gustavus Memminger, noted lawyer and first secretary of the Confederate treasury, built Rock Hill as his summer home. After Memminger's death, the property was owned by William Gregg Jr., son of textile giant William Gregg, and later by Ellison Adger Smyth, dean of the Southern textile industry, who renamed it Connemara. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carl Sandburg and his family purchased the property in 1945 and then lived there for 22 years. Connemara is a National Historic Site run by the National Park Service. It welcomes over 100,000 guests per year to tour, learn, and enjoy the house, barns, and hiking trails. ... Read more

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The America of Carl Sandburg tells of the effect of the American tradition on the poet and of his impact upon America. It is a study in depth, showing the unconscious Scandinavian influences, the conscious French influences, and the effect on Sandburg's writings, both poetry and prose, of Lincoln, Emerson, Emily Dickinson, and, of course, Whitman. The author develops a clear picture of Sandburg's place in American literature by comparison and contrast with other major contemporaries and delineates the emergence of the Sandburg image abroad. ... Read more

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Carl Sandburg's The American Songbag recordings from May 27, 1952 to June 13, 1953, took place at informal gatherings of kindred souls like the Classical Guitar Society in New York City. Covering 350 years of American history, Remembrance Rock is quite possibly the last unblushing love-of-country novel of the century. ... Read more