Arts Eclectic: On the Road With the Beats

March 14, 2008 12:07 pm by: Mike Lee

The Ransom Center hosts an exhibition of artifacts from the Beat Generation.

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The Harry Ransom Center is currently hosting the exhibition On the Road With Beats, which tells the story of the beat generation with books, artifacts, photographs, and visual art. The centerpiece of the exhibit is an early manuscript of On the Road, typed by Jack Kerouac on a 120-foot-long scroll of paper.

In conjunction with the exhibit, the Spiderhouse is hosting a marathon reading of On the Road all day on March 29.

Where: The Harry Ransom Center, 21st and Guadalupe on the UT Campus

When: Through August 3 (the On the Road scroll manuscript will be on display through June 1).

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