Hello all......59 year old who usually hangs at a guitar forum (yeah, I collect them!). Another member of the forum asked who all else collected pens....Since I am a total compulsive addict, it reminded me of my youth and the great pleasure I got from Passing the Palmer Method testing done at my Catholic school. Nuns hulking over you, spilt ink, blotted out spots and stained scruffy cuffs. So i've been checking things out and bought a Libelle Autumn Leaves medium nib and it writes just fine.

I write poems and i'm working on a short story, using a computer(!) and ball points. I'll change: I promise..........See ya around....Bob......[font="Arial Black"][/font]

Welcome to FPN.

Hi Bob, I love guitars too. Especially Ovations. But then, I decided there is no point to have more than one. First, I do not master the tool. Second they are too big for my house. Fountain Pens are just fine in that!

Lets abjure those ballpoints and be converted to FP!

Regards,

Welcome to FPN, Bob.

Lowell, Mass., represent!

Big fan of Kerouac. I've been through Lowell, some road trips. I think if Kerouac were alive, he'd have a blog. And it would be interesting and crazy, cos he would write under the influence, you know he would.

Ah, Jack. You big ol' drunken, quasi-bodhisattvian, literary-genius, misogynistic, flag-wavin' mama's boy... sigh.

See ya 'round, Bob.

I have a special place in my heart for Jack. I only saw him in Lowell the last few years before he died. I never had a conversation with him; just yelled "Hello, Jack" across Merrimack Street when he was entering the "Laconia", one of the meanest, most drab, hell holes in Lowell. That was the bad Jack. The good Jack would sneak into Lowell High and wander the Halls seemingly searching for a younger, more robust version of himself. Sometimes students would find him weeping in the bath room. Weeping for the lost innosense of Sammy Sampas and all his high school buddies. Some lost to War, some lost to time.

Oh yeah, Lowell........ I got a ton of Jack stories.....and Edgar Allen Poe......Drinking at the Old Worthen.......Lucy Larcom Park.........Ghosts in the misty Merrimack fog.......

I'm looking forward to these. Cheers!

Lisa

Welcome to the Fountain Pen Network!

There's a few of us here from Massachusetts, and always room for another...

Welcome to FPN!

Welcome and be careful, once you start collecting FPs you never stop

Welcome....

I've got family just around the corner... sorta... in Acton.

Enjoy!

Thanks for the warm welcome, everybody.

They call Dracut (Dray-cutt) the town I actually live in, Somerville with trees. On a counta da politics.......... a tough town. All the little squirrels and bunny buns wear baseball hats sidewaize and hold you up for sunflower seeds.

Acton is just down the road aways....a great New England town..... full of old trees and duffer old yankees.......ayup!

Oh yeah.......Kerouac wise......he was born about two minutes from me....at 9 Lupine Road in Lowell. If you look that up on the Map Sight, you'll notice a small ball park to the upper right. That's Hovey Field and Jack called it Dracut Tigers Field in his novels. My dad was a member of the Dracut Tigers and played against Jack there.

Welcome!!

Being from Lowell myself, now Plano, TX via Winston-Salem & Seattle, I appreciate the Jack K lit & history.

Peter

Welcome to FPN. Lovely place you live at.