Kerouac Corn Hole

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Kerouac CornHole Game – Use concrete corn hole game board already installed in the park, temporarily paint or install portrait of Jack Kerouac’s face on surface, and create bean bags that are books, quotes, or Jack’s influences that can be tossed into his head

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Kerouac.

Kero-whack Drum Installation

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Install some kid friendly outdoor percussion instruments (drums or chimes). Such as: https://strictlyforkidsstore.com/OutdoorInstruments. With or without snarky Kero-whack sign to encourage folks to play.

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Kerouac.

Kerouac Park Haikus

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Jack wanted more people to express themselves, so my idea is for an installation that the public can use to create Kerouac-American-Haikus. It may be difficult to pull off, but what I’m imagining is similar to those installations which are common in playgrounds that have plastic letters you can spin to create simple three letter [Read more…]

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Kerouac.

Little Free Library

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To honor Jack Kerouac at 100, I propose to install a Little Free Library in or near Kerouac Park to allow Lowell residents to easily access and share books by and about Jack Kerouac as well as topics addressed in his works (travel, philosophy, race, religion, history, and of course Lowell itself). Residents would be [Read more…]

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Kerouac.

100 Buddhist Prayer Flags

Idea:

100 Buddhist prayer flags with Kerouac quotes printed on them flying around the park.

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Kerouac.

Projections on Cityscape

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When the Old Man in the Mountain in NH fell down, they installed a series of “profile poles” at the base so you can stand in footsteps and sight along and still experience the Old Man as being where he always was. My idea is to install a series of similar poles along the riverwalk [Read more…]

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Kerouac.

Blank Pad

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A monument shaped like a “blank note pad” that allows the public to write their thoughts on the this note pad and every year on Jack’s anniversary, the pad is Re-painted as a new blank page for the public to re-visit.

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Kerouac.

Kerouac Park Jazz

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A day of music, jazz,Open pianos and open micsPoets and priests alikeA reading of the golden eternity by Kerouac at the end by candlelight silence ,

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Kerouac.

Bilingual Kerouac

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Kerouac was a bilingual author. In a city where the residents speak many languages, a project honoring Kerouac’s many “voices” seems appropriate. I would like to see a project that nurtures the next generation of Lowell’s writers and especially encourages young people who speak different languages in various parts of their lives.

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Kerouac.

Billboard Map and Temporary Trail

Idea:

Pick historical Jack Kerouac locations throughout Lowell and put sidewalk stencils and temporary lightpost signage at each location. Make a billboard map installed at Kerouac Park with pamphlets people can take for a walking tour of all the locations.

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Kerouac.