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Celebrating Jack Kerouac’s 100 birthday !

Celebrating Jack Kerouac’s 100 birthday !

Celebrating Jack Kerouac’s 100 birthday ! 

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Celebrating Jack Kerouac’s 100 birthday !

THE JACK KEROUAC ESTATE AND KEROUAC @ 100 COMMITTEE SHARE SCHEDULE OF EVENTS FOR CENTENNIAL BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION FOR FAMED NOVELIST, WRITER, POET AND ARTIST JACK KEROUAC

TAKING PLACE IN HIS LOWELL, MA HOMETOWN STARTING IN MARCH

Events to include return of original ‘On the Road’ scroll on loan from the Jim Irsay Collection, guided bus tours, musical events, readings, art galleries & more.

To mark the centennial birthday anniversary of world-renowned “Beat Generation” pioneer, novelist, writer, poet and artist JACK KEROUAC, THE JACK KEROUAC ESTATE and the Kerouac @ 100 Committee have planned an array of events and happenings to take place in his Lowell, MA hometown starting in his birth month of March. See a full list of happenings and details below.

“March 12th, 2022 will be the 100th anniversary of the birth of Lowell, Massachusetts’ favorite native son, Jack Kerouac, and folks the world over are weighing in on the enduring legacy of his work,” states Jim Sampas, Literary Executor of the Estate of Jack Kerouac.

“The celebration of his centennial this March in his hometown will include important artifacts, such as an exhibit of the original ‘On the Road’ scroll manuscript, and for the first time ever in one place, all the photographs of Kerouac taken by one of his dearest friends, Allen Ginsberg.

There will be readings, film screenings, and musical performances, all paying tribute to one of the most important authors of our time, and the versatility and openness of Kerouac’s work.”

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(from left to right) Alice Neel, Jack Kerouac talking to Delphine Seyrig, Gregory Corso - after party for pull my daisy 

“ He was like a floppy fur wrap around my wrist, I just twist him around my wrist or drape him and he just purred and purred and even when he got big I still held him that way, I could even hold that big cat in both hands with my arms outstretched right over my head and he’d just purr, he had complete confidence in me - and when I'd left New York to come to my retreat in the woods I’d carefully kissed him and instructed him to wait for me ‘Attends pour mue kitigingoo’ - but my mother said in the letter he had died the night after I left”.