Sandburg Story Slam
The Carl Sandburg Home in Flat Rock, a National Historic Site, offers a free-admission day on Jan. 6, Sandburg’s birthday. A related event, the…
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Sandburg Storytelling Slam
On Carl Sandburg’s birthday, tellers will share a true five-minute story based on the theme of “movement.” Stories can reflect moving from one place…
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Carl Sandburg Folk Music Festival
On Memorial Day folk musicians from across the region will converge at Connemara for a day of toe-tapping fun and music. Just as Carl…
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Goat Milk Cocktails
In 1945, the iconic American poet Carl Sandburg and his wife, Lilian — he called her “Paula” — moved to the Hendersonville area from…
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New Roots on the Rootabaga
Carl Sandburg was a poet of vision, and he’d likely smile approvingly at the initiative of the Flat Rock Playhouse 2016 Apprentice Company. The…
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Ninety-Nine (and Some Thousand) Books on the Wall
Connemara is like Biltmore Estate for bluestockings. Not fancy, but deep. When America’s quintessential everyperson poet Carl Sandburg and his family retired to Flat…
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