Jack Kerouac died in 1969, but his legacy lives on, especially in his hometown of Lowell with The Town and The City Festival, now in its third year. The two-day event, which takes its name from ...

“Everybody goes home in October,” wrote Jack Kerouac, ... a devoted Kerouac fan, ... online-via-Zoom symposium on Oct. 14 from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. Hosted by the Worcester Art Museum and ...

People know Jack Kerouac as the famous author of “On the Road” and a pioneer of the Beat movement. But there’s another side to Kerouac that even some of his biggest fans don’t know: He was ...

A red neon sign, “Jack Lives Here,” was unveiled at Ricardo’s Cafe Trattoria on Saturday, Oct. 6, as Jack Kerouac aficionados gathered with memories and music to mark the 20th ann… ...

Alan Watts wasn’t a fan of Jack Kerouac’s interpretation of Buddhism. Kerouac published his novel The Dharma Bums , which portrayed his fictional alter ego learning Buddhism, in 1958.

The Jack Kerouac Museum and Performance Center at the former St. Jean Baptiste church, built in 1896 and where Kerouac’s funeral was held in 1969, could cost as much as $10 million to $15 ...