A Story of the Buried Life - The Thomas Wolfe Memorial
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- Considered by many to be one of the giants of 20th-century American literature, Thomas Wolfe immortalized his childhood home in his epic autobiographical novel, Look Homeward, Angel. Functioning as a state historic site, the Old Kentucky Home is a memorial to the life of Thomas Wolfe. For more information on the Thomas Wolfe Memorial, visit wolfememorial.com/.
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My mother has stayed in this house when she was about 17, She told us of hearing Mr. Wolfe moving around in his room when he was there, She also met his mother Julia and helped her with chores around the boarding house. My mother passed in 2004.
I used to think Thomas Wolfe wrote a few books that got published and was considered a hero. One freezing cold day in Asheville when I worked downtown I took a tour. It was so cold I was the only one there. I bought one of his books, The Web and The Rock. Thomas Wolfe is a full fledged Genius! He is my favorite writer. I used to come to the Memorial on Sunday and sit on the porch. It is such a peaceful place.
This was a wonderfully produced and presented video. I’m so looking forward to visiting the property this coming June!!! Many thanks for this presentation.
As a Scottish boy in love with American literature, I first came upon the name Thomas Wolfe in Steinbeck's Travels with Charlie.
Grover (The LOST BOY) at the candy store....oh, still tugs my heart. And the way his father reacts. Won't spoil the ending for those who have not read it. How Wolfe evokes this child on the page so that we can see him, plain as day.
One of my dreams is to visit this memorial. Thomas Wolfe is my favorite writter, he is a poet!
It took my French-born, older, German wife, and her cousins, to take me out of my comfortable stability in Germany, to get me into Wolfe. I grew up in Eastern North Carolina, a totally different vibe from the Western part of NC, what a revelation to me, and Wolfe was not taught in the boarding school I was sent to in Virginia, was considered, I assumed, a bit too racy. We had a gas in Altamont last March and hope to get there again soon. Thank you for your work.
Found upon searching Oct.5th Birthday...Thomas Wolfe seems to be a formidable writer, I will check my local library for his works. The fact that his mother took it upon herself to create such a wonderful atmosphere for the young Wolfe proved to be honorable & profitable to her son Thomas...Thank you for sharing such a lovely Memorial to the writer Thomas Wolfe...The Harshaw's
Some day I will take an airplane from Spain ti visit this memorial, I caught up with his literature
I just read "The Risen," by Ron Rash, where this house and Thomas Wolfe are mentioned at length. So nice to be able to see it here.
Terrific video! Thank you for sharing! Insightful and on target.
I took a tour late last week. I've lived in the general area most of my life and that was the first time I have taken the tour. It was awesome. 85% original items. I will go back again soon to take in more.
I had just watched the movie "Genius" on Amazon Prime this month. I have visited the Asheville area many times and was not aware of this museum. Thank you for this intro of the museum. Maybe one day I will visit and read his writings in the meantime.
In this day and age of text messages and byte-phrases like IMHO, BTW, OMG, at which I know Wolfe would have cringed..the modern, techno type of 'shorthand language' is a betrayal of the flowing, oceanic prose he so loved and used, masterfully . No surprise, TW wrote "O", instead of the standard "Oh"..probably a tip of the hat to Walt Whitman, whom I am SURE he must have read and admired. Those long, spun out phrases, as readers ride the wave (sorry for all the aquatic references, here..) I will never think of October - quite the same way again.
Very interesting. Thank you!
Thomas Wolfe "short" story= what... 400-500 pages or so? ;-) Just kidding. I haven't read much of him, as I just don't have much time to read for fun anymore, but every passage I've read or heard read aloud of his I've found mesmerizing.
If walls could talk......
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Wolfe certainly had a thousand words for every picture, every image (yea, the literary antithesis of Hemmingway, who believed in a tight economy of words). But no one painted pictures, and emotions, and the human heart like Wolfe did, with his voluminous, monster sentences. The Russians like him best.