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Read more...Counterculture Museum Update
Yes, we realize it’s been a few weeks since we posted a progress update, and we’re sorry to leave you pining for news! Many exciting things are going on lately, but the one that’s keeping us busiest is finishing the build out of the new Counterculture Museum, its opening fast approaching! At the Counterculture Museum, […]
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Read more...Remembering Leon Tabory
Holocaust Survivor, Friend of Neal Cassady, and Counterculture Figure
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Read more...A Big Score Thanks to Corporate America
by Jerry Cimino One of the advantages that comes with being located in the same city as billion dollar startups is when these companies host large events, we sometimes get the leftovers. That’s exactly what happened last week when we received a tip from a friend that a local tech company was holding an event […]
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Read more...At the Intersection of Science and Poetry: Francis Crick on Michael McClure
After Michael McClure's original "Peyote Poem."
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Read more...Running into Carl Nolte at the Antiquarian Book Fair
Sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good. The day I met Carl Nolte was one of those days. After coming off a very successful two year nationwide tour in The Beat Museum on Wheels in 2004 and 2005, we decided to move The Beat Museum from Monterey, CA to North Beach in San Francisco. […]
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Read more...The Obscenity Trial Over Ron Boise’s Kama Sutra Sculptures
the case of Ron Boise, whose sculptures evidently caused such dismay among certain uptight individuals that the police raided the Vorpal Gallery (located in what is now Kerouac Alley) where they were being shown, confiscated the pieces, and placed the gallery’s owner, artist Muldoon Elder, under arrest on charges of offering “lewd objects for sale.”
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Read more...The Beat Museum, and That Time I Tried to Save Our Corner Candy Store
by Jerry Cimino “I’ve been begging for money my entire life. Is that Beat, or what?” Last week I found a photograph I haven’t seen in my entire adult life. I was going through a large box of family photographs I shipped from my mom and dad’s house seven years ago, after they both passed […]
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Read more...Up Close and Personal with the Collection of Richard Prince
by Jerry Cimino Sometimes life leads you to exactly the place you want to be, seeing things you’ve always wanted to see. A few months ago I experienced just such a moment when I made a trip to New York to peruse the greatest collection of Beat Generation and counterculture memorabilia in the world. I […]
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Read more...Lowell Celebrates Kerouac – Centennial Year
There hasn’t been a year in the world of Kerouac like there was in 2022. So it stands to reason that Lowell Celebrates Kerouac, having been around since 1985, would have its biggest year ever for Jack’s Centennial. In addition to the single largest group of Kerouac fans Lowell has ever seen there were numerous […]
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Read more...2022 – A Big Year for Kerouac
2022 was a Milestone Year Our Commitment to Education Kerouac@100 National Tour The Benefit to Youth 2022 was a Milestone Year 2022 has been a huge year for fans of Jack Kerouac. People around the world celebrated the 65th Anniversaries of both the publication of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s victory in […]
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Read more...Additional Facades and Design Ideas
Additional Drawings & Renderings