Archive for the ‘Mass.’ Category
I capture the castle!
01Feb12
Well, not really. It isn’t really a castle. I haven’t captured anything, except (I hope) your attention. And that phrase has just been on my mind because of several recent conversations about the classic book of that name by British author Dodie Smith. In any event, captured castle or not, I love this building — [...]
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Tags: "Rip van Winkle" parody, "Rip", Lowell, Mass., Pollard Memorial Library, Rip Van Winkle, Washington Irving
At Kerouac’s grave
10Jan12
“He honored life…” But have the living given proper honor to Jack Kerouac, America’s one true spokesman, who plumbed the deepest depths of sorrow and climbed to the highest ledge of beauty and joy? His grave at Edson Cemetery in Lowell, Massachusetts, is marked with a simple slab with the above inscription, the names of [...]
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Tags: Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac, Kerouac's grave, Lowell MA., writers' graves
