A trip back: Kerouac in Northport
Photo credit: Handout | Interest in Jack Kerouac has always been high in Northport, where the writer lived for six years.
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Almost 55 years ago, the man dubbed King of the Beats, the writer who created one of the most iconic works of 20th-century literature, stumbled down Northport's Main Street in his slippers.
Jack Kerouac was already famous at age 36 when he moved to Long Island in the spring of 1958. His book "On the Road" -- a slightly fictionalized account of his cross-country journeys with friends in the...
