Welcome to Jack Kerouac's Lowell
Kerouac Reads Town & City

Click microphone to hear Kerouac read from the "Town and the City"
File size 834K.


A guide to the neighborhoods that shaped Jack Kerouac's life and writing.

downtown button

"Follow along to the center of the town, the Square, where at noon everybody knows everybody else."--The Town and The City
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"And all the usual pleasantries, detailed style, and panoramic shots of a complete social scene, Centralville in Lowell in 1925 being a close knit truly French community such as you might not find any more (with the peculiar Medieval Garlic closed-in flavor) in modern lingered France"--Visions of Gerard
Pawtucketville button

"It was in Centraville I was born, in Pawtucketville saw Doctor Sax."--Doctor Sax
3 map set

This three map set is
by Brian Foye and Mark Hemenway
and is available at the
National Historical Park Visitor Center
in the Market Mills, Lowell.


Main Menu | Downtown | Centralville | Pawtucketville

Jack Kerouac's Lowell is a joint project of the Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! Committee, sponsor and organizer of the annual Kerouac celebration in Lowell, and by the Jack Kerouac subterranean Information Society, publisher of DHARMA beat, the magazine of Jack Kerouac activities, organizations and publications. To find out more about these organizations write to:

Lowell Celebrates Kerouac!
P.O. box 111
Lowell, MA 01853-1111

The Jack Kerouac subterranean Information Society
P.O. Box 1753
Lowell, MA 01853-1753

This site was design by Alan Taupier, with cooperation from Brian Foye, and Lowell Public Library.

We welcome your questions and comment. Send e-mail to: taups@ziplink.net
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