I've had the very fortunate honor of adding Gordon Ball's great Ginsberg Gallery to Beat News. Gordon is a humble, gracious person who has, for the past three decades, been an award-winning photographer, filmmaker, and author. His photos are highly sentimental journeys into vivid moments in time with beat authors and artists such as Allen Ginsberg, Herbert Huncke, Philip Whalen, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Robert La Vigne, Ann Waldman, Lee Ranaldo, Peter Orlovsky, and many others. The buyer was Indianapolis Colts' owner Jim Irsay, who plans to display the scroll in Indiana and maybe around the country to parallel some of Kerouac's travels.
Various opinions abound in the Beat community.
Summer marks the beginning of jazz festivals world-wide. After having been confused for years about the various versions of On the Road that Jack Kerouac began to write, I did all this research and came up with no answer. Since I was writing down all my notes anyway, I decided to form a document about the writing of the book, the typing of the scroll, and the auction. I'd like to think of this document as dynamic. Hopefully it will be added to in the future.