“What we’re trying to do is create a beautiful setting, a beautiful museum space, that is very [welcoming],” said Jim Sampas, the literary executor of Kerouac’s estate and CEO of the new foundation. “We can have various arts, whether it be spoken word, music, lectures on literature, all sorts of different things take place in that setting,” said Sampas, who is also Kerouac’s nephew.
Saturday, January 08, 2022
Nice …
… Newly formed Jack Kerouac Foundation aims to build a museum and performance center in Lowell. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
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That's the old St Jean Baptiste Church on Merrimack St. It's been bought and sold for this and that, and now has it's rightful destiny, it seems.
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