Jerry Cimino opens the Beat Museum in San Francisco.\u00a0 I wish I had been able to make the opening to see the guest of honor – Carolyn Cassady, the 82-year-old widow of Neal Cassady.<\/p>\n
Nearly half a century after they flourished in North Beach, the Beats are back in San Francisco.<\/p>\n
A modest enterprise called the Beat Museum is staging a grand opening at 7 p.m. today at its new digs at 1345 Grant Ave. featuring a collection of books, manuscripts and ephemera from the days when poets, artists, writers and all the rest made the scene on upper Grant.<\/p>\n
In addition, on Saturday the San Francisco Public Library opens a display of the original manuscript of Jack Kerouac\u2019s \u201cOn the Road.\u201d Kerouac\u2019s manuscript beats all: It is a scroll 120 feet long that Kerouac used to produce his book on a typewriter in an amazing 20-day writing frenzy back in 1951.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Story at SFGate<\/a><\/p>\n
Update:
\nOn the Road: The Jack Kerouac Manuscript<\/a> at San Francisco Public Library
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