My Connemara

Company

National Park Service

Price

$12.99

Source

Official Store

Paula Steichen was only two when she moved with her immediate family, the Sandburgs, to Connemara, a beautiful old mansion on more than two hundred acres of farmland. While living on the farm, both Steichen’s grandmother, Lilian, and mother, Helga, made the soil bloom with crops and creatures—particularly their prize-winning goats. Inside the spacious white house, a young Steichen would find her grandfather, Carl Sandburg, composing prose, poetry, and guitar music. The famous biographer and poet taught Paula and her brother John Carl to love nature and respect work. Profiles of the immediate…