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Kerouac’s ‘On the Road’ Being Filmed in Canada

August 22, 2010 by PaulM Posted in Lowell, Culture, History 1 Comment

Shooting has begun for the long-awaited film version of Jack Kerouac’s classic novel “On the Road.” The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. (CBC) posted this report from a city in Quebec that is doubling for Denver. Actors Viggo Mortenson of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Amy Adams, Kristen Stewart, and Kirsten…

Jack Kerouac & Tom Hayden

July 6, 2010 by PaulM Posted in Culture, Education, History, Lowell, Politics 3 Comments

Prof. Bob Forrant forwarded the following quote about Jack Kerouac’s influence on the emerging political activist Tom Hayden in 1960. He’s reading a book by James Miller about the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and ther rise of the New Left to prepare for a history course he is…