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Laura Bush Visits Carl Sandburg House  Laura Bush Visits Populist Poet's Home * Photo by LisaRing.com First Lady Visits Connemara, Announces $50,000 Grant for Children's Program *Laura Bush's July 28 Trip Served to Highlight National Park Foundation Grant. On a sunny, muggy mountain day at the Carl Sandburg's home in Flat Rock, NC, First Lady Laura Bush and U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole walked and talked with the children and their counselors, who were the reason for the visit. For Mrs. Bush's remarks at Connemara, Click Here> Visit Carl Sandburg's Home and become a Junior Ranger. Click Here>  Laura Bush Announces $50K Gift * Photo by LisaRing.com *Standing outdoors at the podium on the park's little stage, Mrs. Bush officially announced the $50,000 National Park Foundation Grant in front of approximately 100 invited guests, park volunteers and credentialed press. *The grant will bolster the Carl Sandburg Home's Junior Ranger children's program. The First Lady is the honorary chairman of the National Park Foundation. For National Park Foundation article about the event and the $50,000 grant, Click Here> *A number of national and local dignitaries along with park officials, attended the July 28 event at Carl Sandburg's home.  Nikol Shuler Waits for First Lady's Presentation * Photo by LisaRing.com *In the audience and publicly acknowleged by the First Lady was Nikol Shuler, the wife of U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler (D-NC). Help raise $100,000 for the National Park Foundation. Click Here> *Corporate sponsor, Unilever, helps make the Junior Ranger national park program possible. Click Here> *U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-NC) accompanied the First Lady during her entire visit to Connemara, which included petting the goats with the children, touring the Sandburg house, and attending the presentation that announced the $50,000 National Parks Foundation grant to the Junior Ranger program at the Carl Sandburg Home Historic Site in Flat Rock, NC.  Laura Bush with theatrical troupe at Connemara * Photo by LisaRing.com *The small group of invited guests were entertained outdoors by a theatrical troupe associated with the Flat Rock Playhouse, North Carolina's state theatre. *For initial July 27 National Park Service press release announcing Laura Bush's visit to Connemara, Click Here> *Connemara Historic Site Was Closed to Public During the First Lady's Afternoon Visit. From 1 to 5 p.m. on Mon., July 28, during the First Lady's private, visit the entire Carl Sandburg National Historic Site, including all trails on the property, were closed and off limits to the public.  THE PEOPLE, YES!: Sharing the people's poet at park gift shop * Belzak/Mediabear ABOUT CARL SANDBURG, THE POPULIST POET: *Biography of Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), Click Here> *For Wikipedia info about Carl Sandburg, Click Here> *For Carl Sandburg historic site in Flat Rock, NC, Click Here> *For Carl Sandburg historic site in Galesburg, Illinois, Click Here> EXCERPT OF SANDBURG'S POPULAR POEM For excerpt of "The People, Yes," Carl Sandburg's greatest poem -- and one of the two works that he was most proud of (his three-volume Lincoln biography being the other), Click Here> |
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