He was a scion of American left wing politics for decades.
Sandburg won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and another for History, the only person ever to do so.
But most of all he was the husband of a dairy farmer and I would bet it is this that he was most proud.
Carl Sandburg House in Flat Rock, North Carolina is a National Historic Site open to the public.
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81 Carl Sandburg Lane, Flat Rock, NC
His boyhood home in Galesburg, Illinois is a State Historic site and also open to the public.
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313 E. Third St. Galesburg, Illinois