Press release from the Thomas Wolfe Memorial:
Saturday May 20th 2017 Look Homeward, Riverside Cemetery Tour
Join the Thomas Wolfe Memorial staff at 10 am for a 2 hour walk at Riverside Cemetery. On the guided tour, you will discover some of the real people behind Thomas Wolfe’s fiction. After Look Homeward, Angel was published in October 1929 many Asheville citizens were outraged to find themselves portrayed in the book. The tour includes information about the real person and quotes from Wolfe’s work describing the fictional person. Meet your guide at the gate to the cemetery. Ticket, $5 per person, are sold in advance at the visitor center of the Thomas Wolfe Memorial State Historic Site, 52 N. Market Street. For information call 828-253-8304 or visit wolfememorial.com.
Photo: Monument for Margaret Hines Roberts, Thomas Wolfe’s teacher at the North State Fitting School, includes a quote from Look Homeward, Angel. “…she remained, who first had touched his blinded eyes with light.” – Thomas Wolfe
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