And the Sargents at the Museum of Fine Arts bring me back time and again.” “I also love the Boston Public Library, for obvious reasons. “It’s one of the great museums of the planet,” he asserts. We couldn’t understand each other!” he remembers with a laugh.Īs a student, Thomas made frequent trips to Boston’s most-loved interiors, particularly the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. “I had to acquire a Boston accent so I could be understood! On my first T ride I asked the conductor if this was the train to Park Street Station. I liked everything about it.” Still, Thomas found that he had to adjust to the local vernacular. I picked Boston because it felt right-it was the most charming, the most intriguing. “I was a Las Vegas kid and I’d always wanted to live on the East Coast. For Roger Thomas, who attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts for college, working on the Boston area’s first casino, Encore Boston Harbor, is somewhat of a homecoming.
