Welcome Kelly Luce
The Kerouac writer for Spring, 2010 has arrived. A warm welcome to Kelly Luce. See more of Kelly’s work and life at http://www.thecrazypetesblotter.blogspot.com/
Social Fundraiser to Benefit the Kerouac Project
We are having a fun fundraiser with a simple premise. Buy a $20 ticket and come drink all the wine (you can) and eat all the flatbread (you want) with your Kerouac pals. All the usual suspects and some unusual ones too… you know who you are.
Thursday March 18, 2010 5:30 to 7:30 at Urban Flats downtown (where the movie theater is).
Buy tickets at the door or mail a check with your contact information to Kerouac Project PO Box 547477, Orlando, Fl 32854 and I will mail some out to you. Or you can use the paypal donation button then shoot me and email at kerouacproject@gmail.com that you paid and I will mail you tickets.
Did I mention you can by them at the door if you decide to bring friends at the last minute? You can!
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by Kelly LuceAn Excerpt from Ash
The year we lived in Japan, the volcano at the edge of town hiccupped, covering everything in six inches of heavy golden dust. The sky turned yellow, with clouds so low they were like ceilings. No one could remember anything like it.
Businesses and schools closed that first day; there was no way to handle the ash, no plows on hand in that tropical city. It was a nuisance, we were told, but …
Jack Kerouac lived in this home at the time On the Road made him a national sensation. And it was in this home that Kerouac wrote his follow-up, The Dharma Bums, during eleven frenetic days and nights. The Kerouac House, as it has come to be known, is now a living, literary tribute to one of the great American writers of the twentieth century. Like all the other places in Kerouac’s nomadic journey, he didn’t live here long. But the home represents a critical juncture in Kerouac’s life, when he made the transition from a 35-year-old nobody writer, to the bard of the Beat Generation.