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Poet Writer Carl Sandburg Home Natl Historic Site Souvenir Glass Paperweight - RARE! "The fog comes on little cat feet." Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site , located at 81 Carl Sandburg Lane in the village of Flat Rock , North Carolina , preserves Connemara , the home of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and writer Carl Sandburg (1878-1967). Though a Midwesterner, Sandburg and his family moved to this home in 1945 for the peace and solitude required for his writing and the more than 30 acres of pastureland required for his wife, Lilian, to raise her champion dairy goats. Sandburg spent the last twenty-two years of his life on this farm and published more than a third of his works while he resided here. Approx 4.25" x 2.75"x .75" thick. Encased in the paperweight is a mint condition US Postage Stamp bearing Carl Sandburg's image, and a 3-dimensional gold-tone bird flying. Paperweight weighs over 8 oz. Rare find! FAST SHIP--goes to PO next biz day!