Woodstock 50: Kerouac vs. Hippies
What Jack Kerouac couldn’t grasp about the generation he inspired
Nov 3 · 7 min read
Inspired by insomnia and the myriad stories about the fiftieth anniversary of the Woodstock Festival I watched a marathon of ‘Music of’ various decades recently on CNN. I came into the cycle at the start of the 1970s, then saw episodes on the ’90s and ‘2000s (not sure what happened to the ’80s…


