A short drive from our home is the 260+ acres of the Carl Sandburg estate called Connemara, in Flat Rock.  He purchased the home in 1945, and continued to write and publish here until his death in 1967, producing almost a third of his life’s work in that time.  His wife raised goats, and they still are raised on the property today.  After his death, his wife sold the property to the government to be turned into a national park.  She also donated all the furnishings and goats so the estate could continue as a historic working farm.  It ...

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