Charles Thomas, known around midtown as “Ground Chuck,” went into hospice weeks before this year’s running of the Sacramento festival he helped inspire, Chalk It Up!
Thomas, who died Sunday at 56, wasn’t the type of person to shy away from a public event. For years, he was known for his chalk art around the central city and for being a regular at local concerts. So on Aug. 30, his caregivers took him to the festival and provided him a scooter, while his friends created an art square for him, according to his friend Linda Perry.
“He was directing them and then he would go back and forth with his scooter between the stage and square and then he actually performed with a band,” Perry said…