November 2, 2009, 3:03 pm
Sometimes
— especially these past couple of colorful weeks — Liz Weintraub
forgets she's exercising when she's out hiking the wooded property at
the Carl Sandburg Home.
Weintraub
has been faithfully hiking a three-mile round-trip trail to a
mountaintop summit at the Carl Sandburg National Historic Site in Flat
Rock for the past four months as part of her fitness routine.
“At
least twice a week I hike up to the Glassy Mountain overlook,” said
Weintraub, a nurse at Mission Hospital who lives in Hendersonville.
“I'm trying to lose weight and get stronger, and I just love it.
Sometimes I walk around the lake with my husband and 6-year-old. We
always say we're so lucky to live here.”
The
fall is a particularly stunning time to visit the national park site,
where Sandburg, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, made his home with
wife, Lilian, for more than 20 years before his death in 1967. The
house and 264 acres of property, including ponds, hiking trails, a barn
and a herd of dairy goats, became a unit of the National Park Service
in 1968 and opened to the public in 1974.
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