About a year after his homecoming, 37-year-old Thomas died of tuberculosis.
The boardinghouse memorial, like the novels, tells the story of what site director Tom describes as a “young man who, against great odds, wanted to become an artist. In order to do that, he had to escape his crazy family and the tumult of this house and get an education.” While Thomas did escape for a time, he learned later that you might indeed want to go home again.
For information, visit wolfememorial.com.
Text by Marie Baxley
Photography by William Dickey
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