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March 04, 2007
A Take on Denver c/o The Original Beat Officer
Aside from some band that America apparently loooooves called The Fray, Jack Kerouac is Denver's most famed export. 5280 Magazine recently published an excerpt from a letter he wrote to his friend Ed White on the mile higggety-highest, which I will appropriate here for you, dear readers:
"I picture myself taking a stroll in the Denver streets after supper, then going back to my room to write. On weekends having big wonderful parties like the old Burf parties. In the summers swimming, drinking brew, going up to the mountains, fishing and hunting...in the winter skiing. Chatting. Living. Going out with the fine gals out there. Eating ice cream. Screwing up at Pecker's Knob. Eventually raising a family out on the farm I'll get...I look forward to Denver as something of a salvation. I only hope you will live there someday, but I guess you won't. I'm going to make it my hometown...I think of Colorado also as a great place to raise my kids. There is a gravity there...as in Lowell...that N.Y. lacks; a Carlylean, earnest gravity. And the most wonderful guys I know all seem to come from there."
Posted by Bree at March 4, 2007 08:55 AM