On The Road for 50 years

2 Jan 2007

I counted minutes and subtracted miles. Just ahead, over the rolling wheat fields all golden beneath the distant snows of Estes, I’d be seeing old Denver at last.
– Jack Kerouac, On The Road

The Denver Public Library is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the publication of “On The Road” with an exhibition and various events over the course of the winter. As part of the exhibit, they will be presenting one of the original 120 foot teletype scrolls on which Kerouac wrote the novel. More information is available on the DPL website.

Update 4 January:
Westword has a fun read on the city of Denver in literature, cleverly called Paint the Town Read.

1 Response to On The Road for 50 years

Amy Haimerl

January 19th, 2007 at 12:26 pm

Thanks for the link to my essay. It was a great project to work on. Here’s the link to the full Literary Map of Denver — what was online before included only a handful of stopovers.

http://www.westword.com/php/map/index.html#

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