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Carl Sandburg: Film: The Day Carl Sandburg Died

Tom McNamara — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 14:57:27 +0000

The Day Carl Sandburg Died, from writer, director and editor, Paul Bonesteel, and AMERICAN MASTERS on PBS.

American Masters The Day Carl Sandburg Died is a production of Bonesteel Films in association with THIRTEEN’s American Masters for WNET. Paul Bonesteel is writer, director and editor. Matthew Gellert is producer. Davis Bates is narrator. Music is by Zoe Keating. Susan Lacy is the series creator and executive producer of American Masters.

American Masters is made possible by the support of the National Endowment for the Arts and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional funding for American Masters is provided by Rosalind P. Walter, The Blanche & Irving Laurie Foundation, Rolf and Elizabeth Rosenthal, Cheryl and Philip Milstein Family, Jack Rudin, Vital Projects Fund, The André and Elizabeth Kertész Foundation, Michael & Helen Schaffer Foundation, and public television viewers. Additional funding for The Day Carl Sandburg Died is provided by the Illinois Humanities Council, Nebraska Humanities Council, and North Carolina Humanities Council.

Carl Sandburg: Studs Terkel: Sandburg Packs a Wallop

Tom McNamara — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 23:30:09 +0000

The late and great Studs Terkel, author of Hard Times, Working, and The Good War, and his last thoughts on Carl Sandburg and the America Terkel documented and recorded his whole life.

“I also say, ‘The People, Yes,’” Terkel says, referring to the 300 page Sandburg poem of the same name. “But I have to add a proviso: The People, Perhaps or The People, Maybe.”

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The Day Carl Sandburg Died Premieres Monday, Sept. 24, at 10 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings)

Carl Sandburg: Video Excerpt: Chicago, U.S.A.

Tom McNamara — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 22:02:18 +0000

See and hear Carl Sandburg’s Chicago in a scene from The Day Carl Sandburg Died. It’s a city that’s the archetype of America: where we all come from. And, that’s what came through in Sandburg’s work from when he first wrote “Chicago” and published it as a part of Chicago Poems in 1916.

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The Day Carl Sandburg Died Premieres Monday, Sept. 24, at 10 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings)