THE DAY CARL SANDBURG DIED
Writer, Director and Editor
Paul Bonesteel
Producer
Matthew Gellert
Narrator
Davis Bates
Music
Zoe Keating
Creative Consultants
Penelope Niven
Dayton Duncan
Peter Frumkin
Denise Kiernan
Associate Producer, research, permissions and additional editing
Neeley Dawson
Additional Permissions
Sara Huffman
On-line editing and graphics
Evan Schafer
Camera
Paul Bonesteel
Evan Schafer
Rootabaga Stories artwork
David Cowles
Rootabaga Stories animation
Jeremy Galante
Field Sound Recording
Evan Schafer
Mike Teeters
Adam Larsen
Titles
Ian Leino
Post production audio mix
Bruce Sales
Administrative Assistance
Emily Davis
Amanda Albee
Additional Music
Sufjan Stevens
David Hartman
Marc Smith’s Rootabaga Band
The Girls (Alison Cowles + Mikaela Davis)
With the permission of the author, this film occasionally quoted or paraphrased or otherwise drawn material from Dr. Penelope Niven’s Carl Sandburg: A Biography.
Carl Sandburg poems performed by
Carl Sandburg
Elliott Gould
Ernie Hudson
Roscoe Lee Browne
Marc Kelly Smith
Edward Hirsch
Ted Kooser
Studs Terkel
Mark Van Wienen
Tim Stafford
Gregory Picket
Geoffrey O’Brien
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Re-creation Cast
Young Sandburg
Michael Buebe
College Sandburg
Matthew Allis
Frederick Dickinson
Josh Damewood
Housewife
Jan Lundeen
Stage Performers
Katy Robinson, Kathleen Bashem, Will Parker, Jordan Shroyer
Re-creation Crew
Costumes
Margo Shively
Location Scout/Casting/PA
Keegan Siebken
Special thanks to
Galesburg Public Library
The Friends of Carl Sandburg at Connemara
Janice Spicka
Linda Holt
Kathleen Hudson
Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site,
Flat Rock N.C.
Connie Backlund, Superintendant
Ashley Tate, Archivist
Sarah Perschall, Chief of Visitor Services
Jill Hamilton-Anderson, former Education Specialist
Lynn White Savage, former Museum Curator
The Carl Sandburg State Historic Site,
Galesburg, Ill.
Steve Holden
Martha Downey
Bert McElroy
Additional Thanks to
Jhon Akers
Peter and Georgia Bonesteel
Jay Bullis
Paul Brown
Elizabeth Carlin-Metz
Martha Downey
Cornelia Foss
Lukas Foss
Kate Francis
William Franckey
Jill Hamilton-Anderson
Matt Hundley
Craig Justus
Mike McCurdy
William Merkel
Mike Mynatt
Meghan O’Rourke
Dennis Sears
Harvey Shapiro
Margo Shively
Len Steckler
Joanna Steichen
George Stevens, Jr.
Nathan Weber
BNSF Railroad
The Captain’s Bookshelf
Carl Sandburg Family Trust
Susan Taylor Rash
Knox College Theatre Department
Prairie Players Civic Theatre
Orpheum Theatre
FOR AMERICAN MASTERS
Series Theme Music Composed by
Thomas Wagner
Series Title Designed by
B. T. Whitehill
Music Services
Rosie Fishel
Emily Lee
Series Project Manager
Arturo Sheimberg
Business Affairs
Josh Gordon
Website Producer and Editor
Tom McNamara
Production Manager
Junko Tsunashima
Supervising Producer
Julie Sacks
Series Producer
Prudence Glass
Executive Producer
Susan Lacy
A Production of Bonesteel Films in association with American Masters for WNET
