I recently returned from a week on the East Coast where I attended the 2003 Lowell Celebrates Kerouac event held in conjunction with U-Mass-Lowell. There I reconnected with dozens of old friends, met many new ones and had a chance to say hello in person to people I've been communicating with for years via the Internet. If you ever have the opportunity to attend future events, I'd highly recomend it. It is a "must do" for any Beat/Kerouac fan. Link here to "Lowell Celebrates Kerouac": lckorg.tripod.com.

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Jack's gravesite on October 4, 2003. (Note beer bottles, miniatures, pencils and writings, etc.)	Note left for Jack on his grave by "MLS".
Jack is visited by thousands every year, as attested by well-worn sod.	Good friend Steve Edington (a Nashua resident) took me to Leo, Memere, Gerard and Jan's gravesite in Nashua, NH, twenty minutes from Lowell.
Jack would often meet Maggie Cassidy (Mary Carney) beneath the clock at Lowell High School.	Close up of the clock. (Gift of Lowell HS Classes '37, '38 and '39)
Kerouac Park in Lowell, MA, dedicated in 1988.	Inscriptions from many of Jack's books are sand-blasted into the face of the granite slabs in the park.

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