
{"id":21383,"date":"2011-10-13T15:07:08","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T19:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=21383"},"modified":"2011-10-13T15:07:08","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T19:07:08","slug":"carl-sandburg-in-chapel-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/10\/13\/carl-sandburg-in-chapel-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Carl Sandburg in Chapel Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Thousand Words<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>By Jock Lauterer<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2011\/10\/13\/carl-sandburg-in-chapel-hill\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/1kWords101311.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"1kWords101311\" width=\"500\" height=\"476\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/1kWords101311.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/1kWords101311-113x107.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/1kWords101311-118x113.jpg 118w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/1kWords101311-100x95.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nCarl Sandburg, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, author and historian, was a Midwesterner by birth, but he chose to be a North Carolinian for the last 22 years of his prodigiously productive writing life. What may be less appreciated is Sandburg\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s connection to Chapel Hill. During the \u00e2\u20ac\u212240s and \u00e2\u20ac\u212250s, when he was doing research for his books, Sandburg was drawn to the resources of UNC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Wilson Library, led at the time by Head Librarian Charles E. Rush. Happily for me, Charlie Rush was my beloved granddad \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and the resulting friendship between the writer and the librarian blessed me (sitting rapt at Sandburg\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s knee) with memorable joke-swapping, storytelling and folksinging sessions. All this came to mind during a recent visit to the local studios of WUNC-FM, where this lovely black-and-white photograph hangs on the wall. It appears to have been shot in the mid-\u00e2\u20ac\u212260s when Sandburg agreed to an interview during WUNC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s early days in the Swain Hall studios. (A visit to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Connemara,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Sandburg\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s home in Flat Rock, just west of Hendersonville, should be on every Tar Heel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bucket list. Check out this National Historic Site at nps.gov\/carl<\/p>\n<p><strong>A THOUSAND WORDS<\/strong><br \/>\nDo you have an important old photo that you value? Email your photo to jock@email.unc.edu and include the story behind the picture. Because every picture tells a story. And its worth? A thousand words.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/sections\/a-thousand-words\/\">More &#8220;A Thousand Words&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carl Sandburg, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, author and historian, was a Midwesterner by birth, but he chose to be a North Carolinian for the last 22 years of his prodigiously productive writing life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":21384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[422],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-thousand-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21385,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21383\/revisions\/21385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}