CABIN LIFE: “It really is a good place and I hope to do a lot of work here,” Thomas Wolfe wrote of the Oteen cabin in a July 13, 1937 letter. “About the only human sound I hear out here is the wall of the train whistle going by the foot of my hill in the azalea bottoms and occasionally very faint music from the Merry-Go_around at the Recreation Park.” Photo courtesy of the