The Dead Writers Club was born out of the fact that there are very few living writers out there that are worth reading. (Naturally, this is because we all yearn to live in the past)
Do you consistently feel as though you are living in the wrong time period? We do too.
This blog is a celebration of literature and the greats who wrote before us.
One of our long time contributors, Lucas Lammott, recently visited Lowell, Massachusetts, which is the hometown of Jack Kerouac. We cannot think of a better way to ring in the New Year! He took some great snaps, which he allowed us to repost here. Enjoy!
Kerouac was born on 9 Lupine Road in the West Centralville section of Lowell Massachusetts, 2nd floor.
Lowell High School where JK was a football star that got him a scholarship to Columbia University.
Jack Kerouac later referred to 34 Beaulieu Street as “sad Beaulieu”. The Kirouack family was living there in 1926 when Jack’s big brother Gerard died of rheumatic fever at the age of nine.
The grave site of Jean-Louis “Jack” Lebris de Kerouac
Late afternoon rest stop at Brew’d Awakening Coffeehaus downtown Lowell. If you ever get a chance to visit Lowell, you should! It is an eerie place… rich in culture, history and… ghostly inspiration. And if you live in Boston… you have no excuse not to go spend a day in Lowell. Thanks, Lucas, for sharing your day with us!
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A few members of the DWC took a trip to Walden Pond, this past weekend.
To those who are unfamiliar, Walden Pond is a historic state park reserve in Massachusetts, where American writer and philosopher, Henry David Thoreau, lived a simple and hermetic lifestyle, whilst composing his masterpiece, Walden.
It’s hard to believe that it truly only cost Thoreau $28.12 (1/2) to build his home!
The reproduction of his tiny house was amazing. Definitely a writer’s paradise.
And Walden Pond? Breathtakingly serene.
All in all, it was a very successful pilgrimage for all of us at Dead Writers Club. And we highly recommend the journey!
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