The Friends of the Library, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Presents:

Installation of Jack Kerouac's manuscript: On the Road and Talk by James Canary

Thursday, September 15, The Louis Round Wilson Library
4:00 p.m. Talk by James Canary, Pleasants Family Assembly Room

James Canary, Conservator at the Lilly Library of Indiana University, will speak about installing the 120 foot scroll manuscript of Kerouac's first draft of his famous novel which defined the "Beat Generation." He typed it in three weeks on a single, continuous roll of paper of which 48 feet will be displayed. The scroll sold at Christie's of New York in 2001 for $2.4 million, the highest sum ever paid for a literary manuscript at auction. The manuscript will be on display in Wilson Library from September 15 until December 15, 2005.

Parking is available after 5:00 p.m. in most campus lots and in any space not specially marked. For more information, contact Liza Terll at 919-962-4207 or liza_terll@unc.edu