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Where the Legend Meets the Road
What the rediscovery of The Joan Anderson Letter means to our understanding of complex Beat figure Neal Cassady and the local family members championing his legacy
March 10, 2021 by DNA
Neal Cassady with wife Carolyn and son John at their Los Gatos home in the 1950s. Myths are stories of our search through the ages for truth, for meaning, for significance. Joseph Campbell
As a teenager in suburban Northern New Jersey in the late 1970s, I was desperate for significance, some sort of a sign that life wasn t just a cross between Friday Night Lights and The Stepford Wives. America, I believed, was bereft of meaningful tradition. Every holiday focused on consumerism and turning the wheel of capitalism one expensive inch at a time. I sought to experience something more meaningful, more transcendent, more damn fun.