North Carolina
Thomas Wolfe’s Angel
The angel statue immortalized in Thomas Wolfe’s autobiographical novel, Look Homeward, Angel, now marks a grave on the Oakdale Cemetery in Hendersonville, North Carolina. Set within the fictional city of Altamont, Catawba, Wolfe’s coming-of-age novel is intently based mostly on his household, neighbors, and upbringing in Asheville. Wolfe’s opus is replete with references to angels as symbols of unfulfilled hopes and goals alongside the less-than-flattering depictions of the Asheville citizenry within the early 1900s.
As within the novel, Wolfe’s father, W.O. Wolfe, was a stonecutter. He maintained a tombstone and monument store on the southeast nook of Pack Sq. in Asheville. The Jackson Constructing now stands on that spot. Western North Carolina’s cemeteries are filled with the grave inscriptions, tombstones, and markers he produced. Though an completed artisan, the senior Wolfe didn’t have the talent to carve an angel’s face. The stone angel that impressed the novel’s angel was ordered from New York and stood for a number of years on the porch of Wolfe’s store as an commercial.
Though data point out that Wolfe’s father offered at the very least a dozen Italian marble angels as grave markers, the angel in Hendersonville most intently matches the outline within the novel. Just like the fictional angel, “… it had come from Carrara, in Italy, and it held a stone lily delicately in a single hand. The opposite hand was lifted in benediction; it was poised delicately upon the ball of 1 phthisic foot…” W.O. Wolfe offered that angel to the Johnson household in Hendersonville, North Carolina, in 1906.
The angel marks the grave of Margaret Bates Johnson, spouse of Rev. Dr. Henry Johnson. Though Johnson died on Could 26, 1905, in Brookhaven, Mississippi, she was reinterred within the Oakdale Cemetery in her hometown of Hendersonville. She rests subsequent to her husband.
In 1949, Myra Champion, a librarian and Wolfe scholar, decided that the Hendersonville angel is the one the creator referenced in his writings. A state historic marker describing the angel’s relationship to the novel stands on Freeway 64 subsequent to the cemetery. Sadly, Wolfe’s followers visiting the grave brought on harm to the statue’s hand and wing that required restore. A wrought iron fence now surrounds the graves and monument to guard the angel from additional hurt.
Whereas at Oakdale Cemetery, one may go to the grave of Leila Maud Davidson Hansell, the “Sunshine Woman.” Hansell was a tuberculosis affected person who feared spending eternity in darkness upon burial. When she died in December 1915, her husband interred her in an above-ground vault with glass prisms inlaid on the highest. The glass ensured that the solar would at all times shine on her. By 1937, Oakdale Cemetery caretakers grew weary of ghoulish guests to the gravesite making an attempt to view the corpse and coated the vault’s prime with cement. Coincidentally, Thomas Wolfe additionally died of tuberculosis in 1938 on the age of 37.
RALEIGH, N.C. — — Ian Jackson scored 21 points and Jalen Washington made the game-winning basket then sealed it with a block to give North Carolina a 63-61 victory over N.C. State on Saturday.
It was tied at 61-all when Washington’s dunk ended the scoring with 24 seconds left. Washington then blocked Jayden Taylor’s layup attempt to end it.
Washington blocked three shots and recorded his first career double-double, scoring 11 points and grabbing 12 rebounds. Jackson made five 3-pointers and finished 8-of-15 shooting. RJ Davis added 11 points for North Carolina (11-3, 7-1 ACC).
Marcus Hill scored 20 points and grabbed nine rebounds for N.C. State (9-7, 2-3), which has lost three of its last four. Taylor added 12 points and Ben Middlebrooks had 14 rebounds.
The Tar Heels led for most of the game and by as many as nine points, 56-47, with about six minutes. Hill scored six points during a 12-2 run to give the Wolfpack a 59-58 advantage with 2:28 remaining.
North Carolina will look to extend its three-game win streak with a home game against California on Wednesday.
N.C. State plays at Virginia Tech on Wednesday.
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North Carolina governor pushes FEMA to extend temporary shelter assistance as winter storm rolls in
North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein said he will continue to use every resource at his disposal to ensure that residents impacted by Hurricane Helene stay warm, as winter storms sweep across the state – potentially affecting power grids and other critical infrastructure impacted by the prior storm.
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) temporary housing assistance will end Saturday for thousands of North Carolina residents, some of whom are facing frigid temperatures this weekend in the Appalachian Mountain region.
“At our request, FEMA has extended temporary shelter assistance through Tuesday in light of the winter storm impacting western North Carolina,” Stein’s office confirmed to FOX Business.
Workers, community members, and business owners clean up debris in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene in Marshall, N.C., Sept. 30, 2024. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
AMERICANS SPENDING THANKSGIVING IN TENTS AS HEAT, ELECTRICITY, FOOD STILL HARD TO FIND
The Transitional Sheltering Assistance (TSA) program, which cannot be requested and was only granted to survivors identified by FEMA beginning in October, was set to end on Friday and later pushed back to Saturday.
FEMA’s local disaster recovery centers will be closed through Monday, “due to winter weather.”
“I will continue to use every resource at my disposal to get folks into safe and warm shelter,” said Gov. Josh Stein.
North Carolinians started receiving letters on Jan. 3 informing them their hotel or motel rooms would no longer be covered, Fox News Digital reported. When eligibility ends, they are given a week’s notice to check out.
HUNDREDS OF LA HOMES EXPECTED TO BURN IN WILDFIRES
Thousands of Hurricane Helene survivors continue to be supported by the program in western North Carolina, following the September storm.
Heavy rains from Hurricane Helene caused record flooding and damage on Sept. 28, 2024, in Asheville, N.C. (Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images)
There are currently 5,600 households currently checked into hotels, according to FEMA.
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The agency said those with questions about eligibility should contact the FEMA helpline at 1-800-621-3362.
Fox News Digital’s Audrey Conklin and Brooke Singman contributed to this article.
Posted Jan 11, 2025
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