Saint Joseph's Cemetery Tour. Oct 2025. Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! Festival

Описание: Related material: https://lowellcelebrateskerouac.org/w...

From the LCK! 2025 program:

"Once the almost-exclusive resting place of Lowell’s French-Canadian immigrants and their descendants, St. Joseph’s Cemetery in nearby Chelmsford, Mass., presents Kerouac readers and students with myriad connections to the Franco-American world of Jack’s childhood and youth. Led by Kurt Phaneuf, tour-goers will be introduced to many of the friends, family, and acquaintances who populated that world — the world of his five Lowell novels."

Start: Kurt introduces the tour including mention of https://www.beatbookcovers.com/kercomp/
8:00 Anglicizing Kerouac to Martin. Saint Joe's role as Franco-American Cemetery. Cemetery history.
11:58 Father Armand "Spike" Morissette
20:00 Father A.M. Caras
22:20 Jack's musings on birth. Dr. Simpson/ Louis Rochette. https://richardhowe.com/2025/10/04/ke...
28:45 Yvonne Le Maitre, Journalist. Reviewed "The Town and the City."
33:20 Dewey Archambault, funeral parlor owner and Mayor during flood.
38:00 Memory Babe discussion.
42:00 Capturing how people speak, cultural sensitivity concerns.
45:00 What groups were at Jack's Funeral?
45:50 Arthur Luis Eno and family. https://www.lowellhistoricalsociety.o...
53:20 Did people know they became characters in Jack's book?
55:40 Herbert Beaupre (classmate of Gerard).
1:02:10 Herve R. Kerouac (Jack's cousin).
1:08:40 Foreshadowing a visitor to the tour.
1:09:55 Brief discussion about family sizes.
1:10:55 Michel Fornier.
1:16:30 Visitors to the tour (Herve's daughters).
1:21:55 Alphee Morin (flood victim).
1:29:30 Claire Fornier Reyes (Rose Martin in Town and the City).
1:31:45 Wilfred "Happy" Betrand.
1:36:00 Roland Salvas
1:39:40 Joe Voyer (WWII PoW, florist).
1:47:30 Omer X. Noel (childhood friend of Jack. 'Zaza Vauriselle' in Maggie Cassady and Dr. Sax).
1:48:20 Joseph Desjardins (candy store owner).
1:53:15 Victor Sawyer.
1:54:45 Champagne family and Watermelon Man discussion (John Fritz vs William Mulgrave).
2:00:45 Gaston Campbell. https://richardhowe.com/2025/09/29/ke...
2:05:23 Andrew Saint Jean (pool player). https://www.billiardsdigest.com/new_u...
2:10:17 Robert O. "Pete" Houde (PoW, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalag_...) and Roland "Ninip" Houde (killed by milk wagon). https://richardhowe.com/2025/10/08/ke...
2:14:40 Helen Surprenant. https://www.lowellsun.com/obituaries/...

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Tech: GoPro 12. Edited in Power Director phone app.