tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7499582243291531753.post5634826091088470604..comments2023-10-12T07:13:01.637-04:00Comments on The American Literary Blog: It will be a new experienceUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7499582243291531753.post-22593947942665550282010-04-18T15:01:38.795-04:002010-04-18T15:01:38.795-04:00Hope you found Jack's grave. It's sort of ...Hope you found Jack's grave. It's sort of low-key but usually has some interesting ornaments left by devotees (booze bottles, guitar picks), and--last July--a little crumpled square of paper on which was penned, "Thanks, Jack--you saved my life." (Poignant, since Kerouac couldn't save his own.) Not far off is a statue--much more visible--of an Indian chief ("great warrior and friend to the white man") known as "an Indian saint," who supposedly lived to be 122 years old. I never made it to the Whistler home during my visit to Lowell: Kerouac and the mills filled-up the whole day. Meant to say earlier that Kerouac loved Thoreau, and was inspired by Whitman.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7499582243291531753.post-5384429992563869762010-04-18T11:33:36.529-04:002010-04-18T11:33:36.529-04:00That's right - Nathan was one of the five foun...That's right - Nathan was one of the five founding businessmen of Lowell. They love Kerouac up there. One of my most positive cemetery visits was my attempts at finding his burial plot. The Whistler birthplace in Lowell is open to the public as an art gallery and, I believe, as a function hall.Rob Velellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14284492589098267999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7499582243291531753.post-57794330281622454092010-04-18T11:29:31.077-04:002010-04-18T11:29:31.077-04:00Hey Rob,
Wasn't Fanny Appleton the daughter o...Hey Rob,<br /><br />Wasn't Fanny Appleton the daughter of the Lowell Mills honcho Nathan Appleton? Lowell is a pretty interesting town of its own, including its many connections to the 20th-century writer Jack Kerouac. Returning to the 19th, the painter James A. McNeill Whistler was born in Lowell, I believe; his father worked for the canal system there (I think).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com