Posted in History, Just A Bite, Literature, Tar Heelia, tagged allen ginsberg, jack kerouac, megan mayhew bergman, rocky mount nc on November 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Launching pad for the fast-food apple turnover and the “I Have a Dream” speech…. home of the pro baseball team that cost Jim Thorpe his gold medals… birthplace of Kaye Gibbons and Allan Gurganus, Phil Ford and Julius Peppers, Mike Easley and Roy Cooper, Thelonious Monk and Kay Kyser, Buck Leonard and Sugar Ray Leonard… [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged dunn nc, jack kerouac on November 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“[Dean Moriarty -- that is, Neal Cassady] and I suddenly saw the whole country like an oyster for us to open; and the pearl was there, the pearl was there. Off we roared south. We picked up another hitchhiker. This was a sad young kid who said he had an aunt who owned a grocery [...]
Posted in On This Day, tagged beat generation, jack kerouac, new york times book review, newsweek, on the road, rocky mount nc, shakespeare, visions of gerard on January 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On this day in 1956: Jack Kerouac, Beat Generation icon-in-the-making, sits down at his sister’s kitchen table in Rocky Mount and begins writing a novel. Since Kerouac, 33, arrived last spring he has been drinking moonshine, suffering nightmares about H-bombs and waiting for a publisher to accept his oft-spurned “On the Road.” With his hosts [...]
