HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Here's hoping everyone had joyous Holidays and the New Year is getting off to a marvelous start.
Carolyn has been very busy this winter with interviews by the BBC, journalists, students. She will read at the Chelsea Arts Club on Monday the 29th. There she will introduce Jay and Fran Landesman, the couple responsible for kick-starting the whole Beal movement in 1948 with his magazine Neurotica. She'll do a book signing at Hatchard'd bookshop (the oldest in London) on February 9. In February and March several film makers, including Walter Salles and one from Canada will visit her along with the PBS team from Denver.In April she goes to Stockholm for the launch of her book translated into Swedish.The requests for photos of Neal and Jack continues as well. Tiring but rewarding.
February 8th is Neal Cassady’s birthday and The Beat Museum in San Francisco is holding it’s 3rd annual Neal Cassady Birthday bash. Jami and John will be guests as well as Al Hinkle, "Ed Dunkle" in "On The Road". February 8th is also the 33rd wedding anniversary of Randy and Jami.. A good time is sure to be had by all!
Neal Cassady was undeniably the real genius behind the Beat movement. He was a force of nature. The inspiration behind Jack Kerouac’s novel On the Road, the man Allen Ginsberg dedicated his landmark poem Howl to, the man who motivated and inspired William S. Burroughs, Ken Kesey, the Merry Pranksters, the Grateful Dead…and untold number of others.
Who was this man? To the world, he was an icon of the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the psychedelic movement of the 1960s, the Holy Goof, Cowboy Neal at the wheel of the bus Furthur on the road to Nevereverland,
To us, he was husband, father, and friend. We are the Cassady family, dedicated to bringing you the real Neal, the Neal we knew. Neal’s wife Carolyn Cassady and their children; Cathy Cassady Sylvia, Jami Cassady Ratto and John Allen Cassady wanted to bring the world the truth about the man, the myth, the one and only Neal Cassady.
So join us in this odyssey of discovery, learn the truth behind the myth as we memorialize not the legend, but the man, Neal Cassady.
