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Jack Kerouac reading poetry at the Artist’s Studio at 48 East 3rd Street, February 15, 1959. “I smoked pot with Jack,” Fred W. McDarrah, who served as a picture editor and photographer for the Village Voice from 1956 to 2005, told the East Hampton Star in 1999 of his friendship with Beat writer Kerouac. “The funny part was that we both hated it. It was not something we enjoyed,” he said. “Even though it was part of the culture at the time, I don’t like anything that puts you in a place where you’re floating. I like to keep my feet on the ground.” McDarrah passed away in 2007.