Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
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artial photo excerpted from John McKinney. Copyright Eastern National Park & Monument Association."Poet of the People"
Carl Sandburg made his last home in the beautiful and picturesque setting of the western Blue Ridge Mountains near Flat Rock, North Carolina. Already a famous poet, biographer, minstrel, lecturer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author in 1945, his wife, Lillian, discovered this estate (farm). He, his family (wife, three daughters, and two grandchildren), a library with over 14,000 volumes, and his wife's prize-winning goat herd moved to this farm because of the gentle climate, the sufficient amount of pasture, and the seclusion it offered Sandburg to write. The Sandburgs bought the farm from the second occupant's heirs. The second occupant of this piece of property had named it-Connemara (CON-nuh-mar-ah).
This is a picture of the front of Sandburg's home. The house sits atop a hill.
Photo by Marsha Butler.
A picture of Carl Sandburg's study, which is left the way it was when he lived here.
Photo by Marsha Butler.
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The Crazy Corner" in his work room. The typewriter, which is sitting on an orange crate, reflects Sandburg as the writer and the voice that championed social justice and the common American.Photo by Phil Smith. Copyright Eastern National.
This picture was taken in Carl Sandburg's living room. The guitar propped on the chair was his.
Photo by Marsha Butler.
This large, sloping rock was a favorite place for Sandburg to work outside, which is behind the house.
Photo by William A. Bake
This plaque commemorates the time he lived at Connemara.
Photo by Marsha Butler.
One year after Carl Sandburg's death in 1968, Congress authorized Sandburg's farm, Connemara, the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site. This was the first national park to honor a poet.
