Jim Irsay, owner of the Indianapolis Colts, bought Kerouac's epic for $2.43 million, a 50-year-old, 120-foot scroll of single-spaced typewritten account of his trip about wandering across America. The original manuscript of the first draft of Jack Kerouac's \"On The Road,\" is displayed in Indianapolis, Tuesday, Jan. Thompson, Irsay said they discussed the manuscript’s continued relevance as a chronicle of American discovery. In a conversation after he brought the scroll with director Cameron Crowe and journalist Hunter S. “My goal all along was to have it and share it with all those who want to see it, whether it’s in this country or other countries,” Irsay said. Having already been on display in Indianapolis, Irsay plans to send what may be the Beat Generation’s quintessential text back to the road from where it came.īeginning this week at the Orange County History Center in Orlando, Fla., and ending with a three-month stay at the New York Public Library in 2007, Kerouac’s “On the Road” scroll will make a 13-stop, four-year national tour of museums and libraries. Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay bought the scroll two years ago for $2.43 million.
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