JL: The late Allen Ginsberg on the first Earth Day, which was here in Philadelphia 55 years ago. He was known for embodying counterculture. He wrote beat literature and confessional poetry. Let’s just ...

Neal Cassady EstateNeal Cassady as a young man ... left a lasting impression on the people he met — especially two of them, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. Kerouac and Cassady struck up ...