by Christopher George
“The people have come far, and can look back and say, 'We will go farther yet.'” Carl Sandburg wrote in his book-length poem The People, Yes. The Illinois-born son of Swedish immigrants, the author spent decades working in and writing about early 20th century Chicago, so rural Western North Carolina must have seemed as far away as a distant star. Yet that’s where he moved in 1945. When he and his wife Lilian bought the 248-acre “Connemara” property just outside of Flat Rock from the Smyth family of Charleston, S.C., that year, Sandburg was already a celebrated poet and author, winning three Pulitzer Prizes for his work. He lived there for the next 22 years, until his death in 1967. Today, the home and the grounds are preserved as a National Historic Site and are open to the public...[continued]
Carl Sandburg @ Wikipedia
Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site
