[MD] [Bulk] Re: not Kerouack

[John Carl]

Speaking of the opposites side of the coin, Marsha:

http://www.nealcassadyestate.com/carolyn.html

*Carolyn Cassady* was born Carolyn Robinson in Lansing, Michigan on 28 April
1923 at 10:AM CST, the youngest of five siblings. Her parents were
educators, her  mother a former English teacher, her father a Biochemist.
They held strict conventional values.  She lived in East Lansing for eight
years until moving to Nashville, Tennessee, where she spent 9 winters.
Summers were spent at Glen Lake in Michigan.  In Nashville, Carolyn attended
the Ward-Belmont Preparatory School for Girls. She began formal art lessons
at age 9, sold her first portrait at age 14, her second at 16 and continued
to paint portraits the rest of her life.

I met her once, at her grandson Bill's wedding.  A very gracious-seeming
lady.   Her book, _Off the Road_ , was a fascinating peek at the other side
of that coin.  what it was like to be left behind while the orginal mad men,
went out on all kinds of adventures.


While in Denver she met Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. She
lived in a residence hotel, and Ginsberg stayed in her apartment for two
weeks before finding one of his own and helped her with homework. Kerouac
accompanied her to rehearsals at the University and rode the streetcars back
and forth. He, Neal and Carolyn went to clubs to dance and hear music.
 Carolyn and Jack were attracted to each other, but Jack told her, "Too bad,
Neal saw you first."

On her last morning in Denver, Carolyn came upon Allen, Neal and Neal's then
wife, LuAnne all in her bed together. She was so shocked, she decided that
was the end of that love affair, and she left for Hollywood. Here she
obtained a promise of a job in the Western Costume Company when one became
available. To wait for that opening, she went to San Francisco, where she
had a married sister with whom she stayed until finding her own apartment
and a job with Joseph Magnin's selling jewelery.

Neal had gone to Texas with Allen and then drove Bill Burroughs to New York.
Five weeks since they had parted he took a bus to San Francisco to join
Carolyn.  They lived happily together while Neal tried to obtain an
annulment from LuAnne. This became final on the 31st of March 1948, and they
were married the following day, April Fool's Day. Carolyn, however, was
already pregnant. Neal worked at various jobs, ending as a conductor on the
SP railroad. The Hollywood job was offered her, but she told them she now
had a family so declined.


On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:46 AM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:

>
> Greetings,
>
> Speaking of the 50's, the series 'Mad Men' is excellent at showing the
> opposite
> side of the coin: the men from Madison Avenue, and their wives, their kids,
> their homes in suburbia.  It's very realistic, and both humorous and
> horrifying.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Men
>
>
> Marsha
>
>