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A new National Park Service report shows that 47,846 visitors to Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site in 2021 spent $3.1 million in communities near the park. Read Story »
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Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site will conduct a maintenance project on water lines running underneath Carl Sandburg Lane on Wednesday, March 16. Due to the work, the Hikers’ Parking Lot and Carl Sandburg Lane will be closed. Read Story »
Visitors to Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site can “Read to a Goat” during National Literacy Month.Beginning today, a red wagon full of books by Carl Sandburg will be available at the entrance to the barnyard an Read Story »
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Visitors to Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site can “Read to a Goat” during National Literacy Month in September. Read Story »
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FLAT ROCK — The Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site will increase outdoor access to the dairy goat barnyard and pasture beginning Friday. Read Story »
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FLAT ROCK — The Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site attracted 78,000 visitors last year who spent $4.6 million in communities near the park, supporting 68 jobs in the local area and generating a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $5.8 million, a new National Park Service report said. Read Story »
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FLAT ROCK — The Carl Sandburg Home will reopen park trails, most of the grounds and parking lots beginning Monday. Read Story »
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FLAT ROCK — Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site and the Blue Ridge Humane Society will co-host Sandburg’s first “BARK Ranger Day”on Saturday, March 28. With short training sessions led by a certified dog trainer, visitors and their leashed dogs will learn ways to safely explore park trails. Upon completion of one training session, participants will be sworn in as "BARK Rangers” and receive an official Carl Sandburg Home “BARK Ranger” dog tag. Read Story »
The new writer in residence at the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site will host a writing workshop at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 4, at the Sandburg Home. Read Story »
FLAT ROCK — During National Reading Month in March, visitors to Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site can “Read to a Goat.” Read Story »
Carl Sandburg Home National Historic will host a community storytelling slam on Carl Sandburg’s birthday, Monday, Jan. 6. Read Story »
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FLAT ROCK — Bells rang out as worshipers walked single file down steps and along a dirt path that led from a hilltop to a stone cross that commemorates the slaves buried in the cemetery of St. John in the Wilderness Episcopal Church. Read Story »
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FLAT ROCK — Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site and St. John in the Wilderness Episcopal Church will join national parks and communities across the nation to commemorate the first landing of enslaved Africans 400 years ago in English-occupied North America at Virginia’s Point Comfort, now part of Fort Monroe National Monument. Read Story »
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FLAT ROCK — The National Park Service will receive public comments Wednesday on proposed increases to house tour fees at Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site. The increases will be the first since 2004. Read Story »
FLAT ROCK — The National Park Service is seeking public comments for proposed increases to house tour fees at Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site. The increases will be the first since 2004. Read Story »
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FLAT ROCK — Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site remains closed while staff continue to remove trees and limbs that fell from winter storms during the shutdown. Read Story »
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Social media buzzed about the appearance of late night talk show host Stephen Colbert in Flat Rock and Hendersonville over the weekend. Read Story »
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What does Carl Sandburg have to do with golf? Read Story »
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FLAT ROCK — A volunteer with the Friends of Carl Sandburg at Connemara has made a video tribute to Tyrone Brandyburg, who was named superintendent of Harpers Ferry National Historic Park in West Virginia after serving for 4½ years as superintendent at the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site in Flat Rock. Read Story »
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Personnel at the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site will begin monitoring the travels of black bear throughout the park. The park is also seeking help from neighbors who would be willing to place a wildlife camera on their property. Read Story »
The Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site last year attracted 82,377 visitors who spent $4.62 million in communities near the park, the National Park Service said in a new report. The visitor spending supported 75 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $5.8 million, the park service said. Read Story »
The Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site has named Lisa Lopez Snyder its 2015 Writer-in-Residence, a program that runs April 8-29. Read Story »
The Henderson County Heritage Museum will present a one-act play by Steve Carlisle called "The Sandburgs of Connemara" Oct. 17-18. Read Story »