• Carl Sandburg Home Spring

    Carl Sandburg Home

    National Historic Site North Carolina

For Kids

Where to? What next? Video

Where to? What next?

Carl Sandburg loved words. He used words to create poetry, stories and songs, many about his own childhood and growing up in America. Where to? What next? guides youth to learn from Carl Sandburg and share their own stories through poetry, song or story. Poet Glenis Redmond narrates this exciting video. Watch it, and and then share your own words as Sandburg did.

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sandburg jeopardy game

Connemara Jeopardy!

Want to test your knowledge of the Sandburgs? After you have explored the park or visited our museum exhibit virtual tour, challenge yourself to Sandburg trivia through our Connemara Jeopardy Game!

Click here to begin playing! (.ppt 380kb)

Did You Know?

Carl Sandburg's home in the mid-summer

Carl Sandburg was not the only notable American to live in this stately home. German born Christopher Memminger(1803-1888), Secretary of the Treasury for the Confederate Army from 1861-1864, had this home built in 1838 to escape malaria ridden Charleston, SC summers and 1860's war-torn Charleston.