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Taking advantage of the wonderful weather, I joined 35 others on a 3.5 hour, 5+ mile walking tour of Jack Kerouac’s Lowell. Tour guides Mike Wurm and Bill Walsh explained that while all of the sites on this tour had been covered on previous tours, this was the first to…
Read More »I am a little embarrassed to admit this, especially knowing my friend and co-author Paul Marion will probably read this, but I only recent read Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. For years the concept of the book did not interested me. Maybe it was growing up in the late fifties…
Read More »Thanks to Howl in Lowell for attending the New England Music Awards last night at the Hard Rock Cafe in Boston. And congratulations to locals D-Tension for winning the New Age/Techno/Hip Hop Act of the Year Award and to Hot Day at the Zoo for winning the Americana/Folk/Roots Act of…
Read More »The design drawing above illustrates some of the ideas being considered for enhancements at the South Common as soon as there is funding for the project. Here’s more on the South Common Earth Day event coming up on Sunday, April 22, 2 to 4.30 pm, at the Edith Nourse Rogers…
Read More »Note this current photo feature on slate.com about “Jack Kerouac and the Beats.” See the 21 images here.
Read More »Sarah Vogelsong of Richmond, Virginia, and the Washington Independent Review of Books, an online publication, reviewed the new novel by Jack Kerouac, “The Sea Is My Brother,” published in England and the United States. Kerouac wrote the book in 1942-43, when he was 20 years old, much of it originally composed by hand…
Read More »The “On the Road” movie trailer was released today. See it here.
Read More »In his opinion column today, NYTimes writer David Brooks muses about his lifelong affection for the New York Mets baseball team. As he usually does, Brooks expands from particular to universal and winds up making an observation about what makes people truly happy. In his analysis he uses two American…
Read More »Nancye Tuttle of the Sun has the story on the Lowell celebration for what would be Jack Kerouac’s 90th birthday this coming Monday, March 12.
Read More »Boston Magazine salutes Jack Kerouac of Lowell for all his writerly accomplishments.
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