Retracing Jack Kerouac

Northport’s oldest house, built in 1761

Main Street, now imagine that in Kerouac’s time without those modern cars

Northport Harbor

The images in this post were chosen to invoke a stroll through Northport as Kerouac must have done countless times in the years he spent living there. Really makes me wonder how he and especially his mum did manage, it’s a quite a spacious, hilly town, and as far as I’m aware they never owned a car so it must have been tough especially in winter. But of course he loved to go for long walks. But it is a very long walk from the train station you can see in the first few photographs to the harbor as I found out on the day I visited.