Jerome Hawks

Anthony J. "Huck" Finneral moved with his family to Lowell in 1936, and was educated in Lowell. Huck had many jobs throughout his lifetime, among them was working for Laganas Shoe and Trull Farm. He also played conga drum and sang in many of the nightclubs in the 1960s with the band "The 5 J's". Acting was Huck's passion, and as a member of the Screen Actor's Guild, he appeared in several movies under the stage name "Jerome Hawks", including the first independent movie made in Massachusetts "Sasqua" which was filmed in Lowell and the Dracut Forest, where he played a hunter. In Vermont, he appeared in the film "A Stranger In The Kingdom". He was a friend of the late Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and the director of "Sasqua", Channon Scot.