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Cemetery angel believed to inspire the angel fountain in Williams’ play Summer and Smoke.

Tom Williams at age 5 1/2,

MS Thr 553, Houghton Library, Harvard University

St. George’s Episcopal Church, where Williams’ grandfather, Rev. Walter E. Dakin, was rector 1917-31. Williams named some characters after parishioners.

Rev. Walter E. and Rose O. Dakin, Williams’ grandparents.

Fragment from Mr. Dakin’s parish register.

Moon Lake, about 20 miles north of Clarksdale, is a setting in most of Williams’ Mississippi Delta plays.

Williams’ sister Rose (center) in Clarksdale.

MS Thr 553, Houghton Library, Harvard University

Downtown Clarksdale around the time Williams lived there.

Headstone of Blanche Cutrer Smith.

A Mississippi Delta cotton field in winter.

Former rectory of St. George’s Episcopal Church, where Williams lived with his grandparents; now the church office and site of the Tennessee Williams Rectory Museum.

Clarksdale’s Delta Avenue, around the time Williams and his family arrived.