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Why Goats? Interview with Mrs. Paula Sandburg

Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site

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While we were in Michigan, one of the children, our youngest Helga, wanted a cow and then Carl was the one who said, you can’t possibly handle a cow, but a goat would be the right one for your size to handle. Goats you can just put in the family car and drive off, she went with me anyway to see about the goats since her father really said no, that a cow was impossible. We had some goats near the house, and I not only went home with one goat, but I said two goats, we’ll certainly need two goats if we’re going to have our family milk supply. Those goats turned out to be way out of the ordinary goats, that’s how we got into having goats.

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Mrs. Paula Sandburg answers why she and her daughters started raising dairy goats.

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NPS Recording

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