Poet’s home sold
The former home of the Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas, has been sold by his widow and is to become a museum, the Associated Press reports.
The house, the Boat House, on the edge of Carmarthen Bay, Carmarthenshire, was sold for $41,360 by the poet’s widow, Caitlin, who lives in Rome.
It was purchased jointly by the Wales Tourist Board and the Fyfnone House School Trust of Swansea, a private educational group, which said the home would become a Dylan Thomas museum and a field study centre for students.
It was hoped the centre would be open late this year, after restorations, the trust said. Thomas lived at the Boat House from 1948 to 1953, and while there wrote his most famous work, “Under Milk Wood.” He died in New York in 1953, at the age of 39. |
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33741, 14 January 1975, Page 4
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