Tonight, from the comfort of our couches, we traveled to Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site. We explored their virtual museum which has information about his early life, his various jobs, career, many awards and notoriety, and details about the home he lived in that is on this site.
My favorite part of this visit was learning about his folk songs and hearing him play them along with guitar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHd_XPBsTeA I sang many of these as a child in school music class!
The website also has activities for kids and Catherine and I made a poem in the style of Sandburg to finish off our visit:
Here they are:
The Dirt
The dirt is dark chocolate
It looks like crumbled brownies
It smells like honesty
It feels like the weight of my ancestors
It tastes like hard work
It makes me feel hope
- Muriel
Daffodils
Daffodils are Grandma’s favorite.
They look like sun shining up from the grass.
They smell like Spring itself, knocking at your door.
The sound like bike spokes turning an d children laughing.
The feel like breathe-easy memories of better times come to life
again
They taste like the salt of sweat on your lip and the sweet
of fresh fruit, juice running down your wrist.
Daffodils make me feel like I’m home again.
-Catherine
This visit was nicely interactive and we learned a lot that inspired us to watch another video interview with Carl Sandburg on youtube. That is the best that a NPS site can do!!
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