Regardez la story Instagram du pèlerinage Jack Kerouac ici :

https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/17846697268708102/

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#PhysicalConnection. As part of "Lowell Celebrates Kerouac", Bill tells pilgrims stories about Jack and the city of #Lowell. For him, Kerouac is the one who truly captured the atmosphere of the city life in blue collar #America, an atmosphere Bill grew up with. We met in front of Jack #Kerouac's #birthplace, on the 50th anniversary of #JackKerouac passing. In this house, John L. Kerouac was born on March 12th, 1922. Going there, Bill has an emotional and spiritual connection with Jack, but also a "physical connection", when touching the wooden house. Bill said about this house: "Egyptians have the pyramids, we have Jack Kerouac house". #americanpilgrimages #PelerinagesAmericains #ontheroad #travel #usa #portrait

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#KerouacSpirit. As I got to #Kerouac's grave with a copy of #DharmaBums #book, I met Rick. Rick was also #reading #TheDharmaBums. Rick #read it loud, shared rhum & weed and his passion for #JackKerouac. He discovered it in his teens and started #hitchhiking across the #USA shortly after. For Kerouac's 50th passing #anniversary, Rick brought a piece of asphalt on Jack's grave. He offered to drive me to his home in New Hampshire. #ontheroad to his place, we listened to CDs a British guy left on Jack's grave with the mention : "I made these CDs for my road trip. Take and enjoy" (picture 3). We stopped at his favorite #bookstore in Portsmouth, NH. I could not resist purchasing a copy of Kerouac's "all road novels" (picture 4). Kerouac's words and Rick's spirit will guide me for the remaining months of my trip. #AmericanPilgrimages #PelerinagesAmericains #travel #america

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Et voici un post de Kathie décrivant son propre pèlerinage :

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October 21, 2019 was the 50th anniversary of Jack Kerouac’s passing, so I went to Lowell for a service at the Archambault Funeral Home, where his wake had been in 1969. (The current director told us about Dylan driving in on his bus in the 70s for Kerouac tributes on what must’ve been the Rolling Thunder Revue tour!) ✨ It was pretty surreal to be there, with books, memorabilia (the bobble heads!), and amazing family photos from the real people of “On The Road”… Then there was a tour through Lowell seeing key places like the now-defunct Catholic cathedral where his funeral was and the library he went to, and we ended up at a classic tavern. 🍺 It was pretty wild to reflect on how this guy Kerouac is one of the reasons I became a writer, why I ended up at Naropa to go to the Kerouac School, how I met @bajoing and Kristen and all the peeps, introduced Owen to him in HS and he became a superfan…it’s pretty wild to think one person can have such an effect on so many people’s lives and inspire so many with their art and their example. 📚 I was glad to meet Kerouac’s nephew Jim Sampas and my new friend Alex, who traveled from Paris 🇫🇷 and hitchhiked from Seattle to document events and places like this across 🇺🇸…I could write a lot more but am very tired from living like a beatnik again last night, so maybe I’ll take it to the interwebs at Houseshow Mag or elsewhere… 👩🏻‍🎨 #kerouac #ontheroad #writers #newengland #beatnik

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