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Galesburg photos - Rob Wick - 10-30-2013 07:46 PM Here's some photos from a couple of years ago when I spoke in Carl Sandburg's hometown of Galesburg, Illinois. Copies of the photos will be available in the gift shop after the tour is over. ![]() The reason for the trip. I presented the paper on the friendship between Sandburg and James G. Randall that I had given at the Conference on Illinois History the previous year. ![]() Cheryl and I standing in front of Sandburg's birthplace. ![]() The living room of the Sandburg birthplace. ![]() The bedroom where Sandburg was born. ![]() The family kitchen. ![]() The family dining room, literally two steps from the kitchen. ![]() The museum in the visitor's center, which is a house next door. ![]() The typewriter on which Sandburg wrote part of Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years. ![]() Statue of Lincoln at the railroad depot. ![]() Best Rob RE: Galesburg photos - RJNorton - 10-31-2013 05:17 AM Rob, I sure hope you have an opportunity to travel to Connemara someday. I guarantee you will love it. RE: Galesburg photos - Rob Wick - 10-31-2013 06:55 AM I hope so too, Roger. Given my growing hatred of driving, I'm not sure if that will ever happen, however. Best Rob RE: Galesburg photos - Joe Di Cola - 10-31-2013 09:37 AM Rob, Thanks so much for sharing all of the pictures from your jorney to Kentucky and Indiana. Thanks, too, for the pictures of the Sandburg birthplace in Galesburg. The latter is a site less frequently visited by Lincoln people, and the photos will at least give them a chance to see where Sandburg's remarkable life had its beginnings. All the best to you, Cheryl, and Droopy, Joe RE: Galesburg photos - Rob Wick - 10-31-2013 03:53 PM Thanks Joe. One thing I wish I had done was visit the other homes Sandburg lived in in Galesburg. We just didn't have enough time. I also would like to pay my respects at Tarbell's grave in Titusville, Pennsylvania. Best Rob |