A memorial for Kerouac

A memorial for Kerouac

Article part 2 of 2 on the recent Lowell, Massachusetts, city council vote to commemorate author Jack Kerouac with a park bearing his name. Full article title includes the line: "After years of indifference, Lowell votes to build a park." Charts Kerouac's sudden rise to fame with the publication of his novel, "On the Road." His ensuing lifestyle in the public eye, his behaviors scrutinized by many in Lowell. Kerouac's life and works as an affront to the popular values of his working-class hometown, and his apparent abandonment by fellow Lowellians. The recent apparent change in attitude toward Kerouac, though with some evidence of familiar resistance.

Muro, Mark

1987 February 3

English

Newspaper Article

1987, Lowell, Massachusetts

0743-1791

Tuesday

53, 54

Boston, Massachusetts

Boston Daily Globe

Living