Paul Maher Jr.
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working on I AM THE REVOLUTIONARY: YOUNG MAN KEROUAC for 2017
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Post by Paul Maher Jr. on Jan 4, 2017 20:18:02 GMT -5
Source: A paean in Colorado to Kerouac’s ‘On The Road’KREMMLING, Colo. — When Jack Kerouac and his companions were traipsing across North America after World War II, there were no interstate highways. Those traveling from Denver to Salt Lake City mostly drove on the narrow, two-laned Highway 40. From Denver, that highway switchbacks its way over the Continental Divide at Berthoud Pass, which Kerouac, in “On the Road,” called “that tremendous Gibraltarian door.” The highway then crosses another range, swooping past the ski runs of Steamboat Springs’ Howelsen Hill before continuing on into Utah and the outskirts of Park City. The Sky-Hi News reported that Dawn Mathews is working on a book about Kerouac and Highway 40. She said his words “caress and paint the land” that Highway 40 runs through. As Mathews works on her book, Howard Neville is working on a life-size sculpture of Kerouac. Neville and Mathews said the sculpture will be placed somewhere along Highway 40 between Berthoud Pass and the Utah border.
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