Classical guitarist and Middlebury alum John Akers tells the story of Carl Sandburg's love of the guitar. Poet of the people, novelist, historian, author of children's literature, collector of folk music, singer and twentieth-century American icon, Carl Sandburg loved the Spanish classical guitar. In this hour-long presentation, narrator and guitarist John Akers tells the story of Sandburg's love, interpreting and dramatizing Sandburg's guitar-inspired writings and performing the pieces he loved, including an original composition for Sandburg by Andrés Segovia. Free