On Wednesday, Oct. 10, as Elizabeth Warren and Scott Brown were squaring off for the third time in their battle for a U.S. Senate seat and millions of people were watching Simon Cowell and Britney Spears do their thing on "The X Factor," about 300 people were quietly taking part in literary history in Lowell, Mass.
Why Lowell? It's the boyhood home of Beat Generation icon Jack Kerouac. The event? The world premiere of "Beat Generation," a play Kerouac wrote in 1957 but never saw produced in his lifetime. In fact, almost nobody knew it even existed until it was uncovered in a Jersey City, N.J. warehouse in 2004. Since then it's been published and excerpts have been presented, but it's never been performed in its entirety on stage by actors. Until now.
