![]() ![]() In his teens, the Kerouac family lived in an apartment at 118 University Avenue (formerly Moody Street). Most of these French-speaking immigrants and their families - as did the Kerouacs - lived in the Centralville, Little Canada, and Pawtucketville sections of the city. During this time, Lowell was a city of about 100,000 people, including 30,000 Franco-Americans. They met and were married in Nashua, New Hampshire, and later moved to Lowell, where Jack, his brother Gerard, his sister, Caroline (Nin) were all born. Library of Congress French-Canadian Roots Kerouac's birthplace on Lupine Street in Lowell. Kerouac’s first seventeen years were those of a typical Franco-American youth living in Lowell his next thirty years were those of a traveling Ulysses living with everyone everywhere. Petersburg, Florida, on October 21, 1969, at the age of 47. Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, on March 12, 1922, “at five o’clock in the afternoon of a red-all-over supper time” ( Doctor Sax) and died in St. Most of all he wrote about the wretchedness of the human condition which, according to him, should find solace in brotherhood, kindness and heaven. Kerouac was deeply spiritual and melded his Roman Catholic upbringing with a bicoastal Zen Buddhism acquired from the likes of Alan Ginsberg and Alan Watts. He wrote about childhood and adolescence in Lowell ( The Town and the City), and he later wrote about the literary avant garde Beat poets and writers he met when he moved to New York – to attend Columbia University on a football scholarship. His initial influences were the American realist writers of the 1920s and 1930s, such as Thomas Wolfe, but he soon discovered a powerful form of lyrical, stream of consciousness in his novel On The Road and in subsequent work. Jack Kerouac wrote novels and poetry based on his life experiences in Lowell, New York City, and traveling about the United States. ![]() Parking for the Boott Cotton Mills Museum is available at the city of Lowell parking garage at 75 John Street.Ĭomplimentary parking for Lowell National Historical Park is available at the city of Lowell HCID parking garage at 350 Dutton Street, which is a ten-minute walk from the museum. This exhibition runs from August 12 through October 10, 2022. ![]() Visions of Kerouac includes rarely seen photographs of Kerouac taken by his friend and fellow Beat author Allen Ginsberg, photographs by John Suiter, and a reproduction of the "On The Road" manuscript.Īdmission to the exhibition is included with general admission to the Boott Cotton Mills Museum: $6 adults, $3 for youth and students, and $4 for elder visitors (62+).Īmerica The Beautiful interagency passholders receive a 50% discount for the admission of the passholder and as many as three companions. Lowell National Historical Park and the Committee present Visions of Kerouac, a special exhibition of writings, personal items, and photographs to mark the 100th anniversary of Kerouac’s birth in Lowell. ![]()
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