Descendants of Carl Sandburg s goats still roam Michael Patrick Shiels, For the Lansing State Journal
President Lyndon B. Johnson described poet and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carl Sandburg as “America’s voice,” but it was the quiet that drew Sandburg, in 1945, away from life in Southwest Michigan after almost 20 years. Sandburg, who’d moved to Michigan from Chicago, this time traveled, at age 67, to a new home on a lush piece of mountainous land in western North Carolina.
You can experience the solitude he sought by strolling the expansive grounds of the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site just off I-26 a few exits southeast of Asheville and 30-miles north of Greenville, SC.