On the Road in Lowell

Jack Kerouac's most celebrated work visits home.

Before he became the father of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac spent his days wandering the neighborhoods and riverbanks of Lowell, Massachusetts, a mid-sized city 27 miles northwest of Boston. An important center in America’s 19th-century Industrial Revolution, the influence of Lowell’s urban, red brick landscape is evident in much of Kerouac’s writing, both in its gritty realism and unflagging sense of possibility.

Read more about Kerouac and the celebration around the "On the Road" scroll in the May/June issue of The AAA Touch.