The autumn air is crisp, clear, cool and invigorating. The environs are poetic even for the unlettered. This was the inspiration for our countries preeminent Poet of the People. Connemara, home to Carl Sandburg in Flat Rock, North Carolina. The Sandburg family did not name the farm Connemara. They simply kept the name that the former owners had given it. The Smyth family from Charleston, SC owned the farm prior to the Sandburg's. Captain Ellison Smyth named the farm Connemara after his ancestors who had come from the Connemara region of Ireland.
Buffalo Dusk
The buffaloes are gone.
And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.
Those who saw the buffaloes by thousands
and how they pawed the prairie sod into dust with their hoofs,
their great heads down pawing on in a great pageant of dusk,
Those who saw the buffaloes are gone.
And the buffaloes are gone.
Carl Sandburg
The National Parks Service has preserved this very special place for All of us to enjoy and as for me, I am thankful and blessed to have very special people with whom to enjoy it.
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