Kerouac's Trail Before He Hit the Road: "Outside the 'Maggie Cassidy' house, a battered, four-story tenement at 736 University Avenue, Mr. Marion says: 'There's no sign that reads `Jack Kerouac lived here.' But his work has been translated into 20 languages. We're standing on a site that figures in world literature.'
Called Ghosts of the Pawtucketville Night after the opening section of "Dr. Sax," the 90-minute tour meanders past Kerouac's boyhood homes; the Pawtucketville Social Club, once managed by Kerouac's father, Leo, and where young Jack helped out in the bowling alley; the Ste. Jeanne d' Arc and St. Louis de France Churches, both of which Kerouac attended and which are now closed; over the Moody Street Bridge; past the Archambault Funeral Home where Kerouac's wake was held; ending at Notre Dame de Lourdes Grotto, a spectral place where the mysterious caped figure of Dr. Sax was said to reside."
[Kerouac, unlike Whistler, never pretended to be from "far away Baltimore."]
