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City of Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas

Former KU Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Dies, Nov. 24, 2009, Durango, CO

[photo: Beat Generation writer Charles Plymell in Moody's Skidrow Beanery shirt, Cherry Valley, NY, 2002. Copyright 2002, Pat O'Connor.]

"Nobody Rides For Free"by Grant Hart (formerly in Husker Du), music video by Laki Vazakas

Charley Plymell notes: "I first met Grant at B's [William Burroughs] funeral. Charles Henri Ford has a cameo in this and Ray Bremser kissing the bird."

New: Poet Charles Plymell Ad Astra Poetry Project # 33, by Denise-Low, Kansas Poet Laureate, 2009

July 2009: Expanded Charles Plymell section at Beats In Kansas

New: Artist S. Clay Wilson: The Underground Genius Surfaces, by Charley Plymell, Beats In Kansas,

S. Clay Wilson's medical crisis -- hard to explain that without his art, the total visual palette used today would be different.

Donations May 2009 address: S. Clay Wilson Special Needs Trust, PO Box 14854, San Francisco CA 94114
[Courtesy, Jim McCrary, used with permission. All rights reserved.]

William Burroughs, Jim McCrary, S. Clay Wilson -- on William's porch.



Naked Lunch At 50, The Bourgeois Pig - Sue Ashline and Dalton Howard provide music; Phil Heying, Jim McCrary, and Karl Gridley; James Grauerholz; and Wayne Propst.

Naked Lunch At 50, Lawrence Celebration, The Bourgeois Pig, August 2, Phil Heying photographer; flickr photo stream

[The Unspeakable Mr.Hart, art work by Malcolm McNeill, © 1970; work with William Burroughs; used with permission, all rights reserved.]New: The Lost Art of Ah Pook is Here, Malcolm McNeill & William S. Burroughs Word/Image Novel


New: Hikuta! Tom Peschio on William Burroughs and His Guns, [T.P. was close friend and helper of W.S.B.], realitystudio.org

Reconstruction, Unraveling Lawrence’s most explosive underground newspaper, 40 years later: Issue No. 1, Feb. 10-24, 1969, by Frank Tankard, lawrence.com

19th Century Kansas Traveling Shows
& Cowboy Blues: Early Black Music In The West, by P.J. O'Connor

Denise Low | Kansas Poet Laureate, 2007-2009

Jim McCrary: Ad Astra Poetry Project #24, Denise Low

Victor Contoski: Ad Astra Poetry Project #37, Denise Low

Denise Lea (Dotson) Low , Ad Astra Poetry Project #36, Denise Low


National Register of Historic Places Nomination: Oread Historic District - Located directly west of the downtown commercial area and east of the University of Kansas campus, the majority of the Oread Historic District falls within the “Original” town plat, and thus represents one of Lawrence’s oldest residential neighborhoods.

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