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Article: A WEEK OF JACK KEROUAC IN LOWELL
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 20, 1988
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The city of Lowell is celebrating one of its most famous sons
this week -- Jack Kerouac, the chronicler of the Beat Generation in
20 books of narrative prose, poems and essays, who was born in a
Lowell double-decker in 1922 and buried in his hometown's Edson
Cemetery in 1969.
Tomorrow through Sunday, the Lowell Historic Preservation
Commission is sponsoring a weeklong series of events to mark the
dedication of a major work of public art, the Jack Kerouac
Commemorative. The commemorative is a massive, eight-piece, granite
sculpture designed by Ben Woitena of Houston, Texas, who won a
national competition for the project last year. The sculpture is
arranged around a 3,600-square-foot ...