Jack Kerouac's scroll manuscript of On the Road · The Long, Strange South: North Carolina's Counterculture Story

Title: Jack Kerouac's scroll manuscript of On the Road
Description: On Christmas Day, 1948, Neal Cassady arrived at the Rocky Mount, NC, home of Caroline and Paul Blake, Kerouac's sister and brother-in-law. Kerouac and Cassady set out on a road trip to New York that appeared in "On the Road". In the final version of the novel, Rocky Mount is transformed into the fictional town of Testament, VA, a change suggested by his editor to keep the geography believable.
Creator: Jack Kerouac, authorSee all items with this value
Date: 1951
Source: poeticoutlaws.substack.com; https://poeticoutlaws.substack.com/p/kerouac-on-the-verge-of-fame
Subject: Jack Kerouac-Beat Generation-On the Road-North Carolina-Rocky Mount-Kinston-Counterculture
Bibliographic Citation: Poetic Outlaws. “Kerouac on the Verge of Fame.” Substack, 2026.