Grave of Jack Kerouac — Attraction in Lowell

This is an absolute monster of a graveyard in Lowell ma. This is an amazing place to take a stroll or get into a walk in regiment. Because it's literally blocks and blocks. And it is a very old graveyard as well as a very new graveyard. But the oaks are hundreds of years old. And it is an amazing place to see some of the most beautiful tombstones. And dedications of love That fills you with an emotion equal to McBeth. Amazing walks plenty of adventure and amazing tombs...

Center of lot 94 (Lincoln and Seventh)- there are two stones, a big one with his signature on it placed in October 2014 on the 45th anniversary of his passing that has his inlaws mentioned. The real stone is a small flat piece about 12 or 13 steps in front of the right edge of that and just mentions him and Stella. His real family (brother, daughter, parents) are buried up in Nashua at Old Saint Louis...

“The road is life,” the big one says with gusto. It was nice to leave a penny on Kerouac’s resting place with my son on a bright day, and to see the notes and tokens left by others. Easy enough to find, and worth taking a moment.

We had driven by the house where he was born 20 minutes earlier - unmarked, with a dude out front, in a clean cut working class neighborhood. I wished for a...