Using the hyperlinks included in the following two documents, you can also visit places where the Kerouac lived in Nashua, New Hampshire, and other places where Jack lived or that he used to go to in Lowell, Massachusetts. You will visit Le Lowell de Jack Kerouac (Jack Kerouac's Lowell) with Mr. Roger Brunelle from Lowell, a specialist of Jack's works (in French only). In addition, the Reverend Stephen Edington will show you the places where Jack's relatives lived or used to go to, including the homes of his grandparents, uncles and aunts as well as his father, Leo, and his mother, Gabrielle, before they moved to Lowell at the beginning of the 20th century, the Kerouacs' Nashua. (The Kerouac family in Nashua).

As we were able to meet and interview people who knew Jack Kerouac at one time or another during his life, we added various hyperlinks to articles we produced as a result.

Mr. Jacques Dumais, who lives in Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly* (Quebec), was fascinated by Jack, whom he met many times during the Sixties at the Lowell's Club Passe-Temps; he tells us about his Jack the man. Jack loved listening to him speak French; as for Mr. Dumais, he liked to listen to Jack talking about his trips back and forth across the United States. We met Mr. Dumais on 9 April 2009 in Sainte-Croix-de-Lotbinière*. (*Two nearby villages along the St-Lawrence River, south of Quebec City) (Article about the interview)

This is followed by an article about Dr. Roger Brunelle, a Franco-American like Jack, and a specialist of his works. Although he met Jack only once and not long before his death, Mr Brunelle was deeply marked by Jack's works. We interviewed Mr. Brunelle when he came to Quebec City in autumn 2012 for the 25th anniversary of the Rencontre internationale Jack Kerouac. This interview was published in Le Trésor des Kirouac: part 1 and part 2.

Further to this information, here are three articles about Jack Kerouac published in Le Trésor des Kirouac. The first one is entitled Homage to Jack Kerouac by Gerald Nicosia, author of Memory Babe, considered the most complete biography ever written about Jack Kerouac. In the first text, Mr. Nicosia tells how he discovered Kerouac's world. In the second text entitled Contradictions in Jack Kerouac's Life, Gerald Nicosia talks about the apparent contradiction between Kerouac's French-Canadian family background and how everyone can understand him; how he succeeds in describing all the United States and even predict its future; how a man so full of his own ethnic heritage, of his small town, became the spoke-person for all his people, and how he managed to reach people of all stripes: workers, artists, youth, professors, and so many others too.

Another article published in Le Trésor des Kirouac about the launching of Gerald Nicosia's book: One and Only, that must be read before On the Road, (see the section Publications on this website). One and Only contains a wealth of information about Jack Kerouac. The book review is by Mark Pattison, a journalist and the KFA representative for Eastern USA: Mark Pattison read ... One and Only.

We also invite you to read an abbreviated version of a talk given by Father Armand Morissette to the Lowell American Citizen's Club when members of the former Jack Kerouac Club from Quebec City visited Lowell in 1986. Father Morissette, who knew Jack very well, tells how he perceived Jack then, and how Jack is perceived by one and all today.

To complete this compilation, Mr. Eric Waddell, responsible for the Jack Kerouac KFA's Observatory and director of the Rencontre internationale Jack Kerouac held in Quebec City in 1987, writes* about The End of a saga, Jack Kerouac's French Writings, that started in 1972 when Victor-Lévy Beaulieu, published his book: Essai-Poulet (Chicken-Essay).

*Le Trésor des Kirouac, number 127, summer 2018, pp. 53-55.