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Cherished native son Thomas Wolfe was a sixteen-year-old freshman at the University of North Carolina when the United States entered the war. The campus was quickly swept by military fever, and students jumped at every opportunity for military training available to them.

Asheville author Thomas Wolfe turned his observations of growing up in his mother's boarding house, the "Old Kentucky Home" into his best known novel Look Homeward, Angel. His mother's boardinghouse is now the Thomas Wolfe Memorial, one of 27 state historic sites.