Adams was 19, dark-haired, big-eyed, and broken-hearted, consoling herself over a double espresso and ice cream after her boyfriend had abruptly split town. A 6-CD box set featuring two complete, previously unreleased performances from the Jerry Garcia Band and Bob Weir & Rob Wasserman recorded September 5th, 1989 in Hartford, CT and September 6th, 1989 in Uniondale, NY. He had been in a coma. Many of the compounds she was analyzing came from the psych department, where novelist Kesey was a volunteer guinea pig, tripping his brains out on the still-legal precursors to lysergic acid diethylamide, aka LSD. We did the best we could. It was cozy enough, and I felt perfectly safe. I got a huge jolt, and I had a very vivid image of us being together. Chuck dan Sue Kesey mengharapkan sekitar 5. "Mountain Girl taught me this years ago," says Rock Scully. The tiny sink was a hazard zone. "I knew he could pay it and that he would get total control of his own business and that I wouldn't ever have to know anything about anything. "He was not happy to see me," she says. So youve gotta stay grounded, stay humble, be realistic. "It wasn't (about) any one person," she says. The free concert, scheduled for December 6, 1969, would include performances by the Dead, Santana, Jefferson Airplane, and the Rolling Stones. ", Cassady roused the owner of the bus and the ranch, the man he called the Chief: Ken Kesey. We're lucky to have geniuses around giving us art." But she wasn't looking for another man to step in. We were very, very happy with each other. He faked a suicide and split for Mexico, basically leaving a pregnant 18-year-old - Mountain Girl - behind him. But facing the judge, she was sharp enough to know who they were really after: Kesey. In 2020, as a board member of the Edelic Center for Ethnobotanical Service, a nonprofit advocacy group, she helped legalize magic mushrooms for therapeutic use in Oregon. She studied journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia and has worked in a variety of media including television and daily print news. The real story of Mountain Girl, as I've learned after months of talking to her, is far more complex. ", "Jerry had told me what he wanted me to do," says Jon McIntire. It's a piece of my childhood. ", It was August 31, 1965, and everyone piled into Furthur, the painted school bus that would soon become one of the most renowned icons of the Sixties. For a long time, Mountain Girl clung to her anonymity. "Someone got us all tickets and we dressed up to go. In 1980, on New Year's Eve, they got married by a Buddhist monk backstage at a Dead concert. Until, in 1986, a phone call came telling her that Jerry was in Marin General Hospital in a diabetic coma and that he was not expected to live. Growing up, I went to the high school where 420 was coined [San Rafael High School], so theres that. Carolyn's daughter Sunshine was born in a Manzanillo hospital where the water was turned off 12 hours a day. ", With Cassady behind the wheel, the Pranksters rode the bus down to Los Angeles for a series of Acid Tests. "I was like, whoa, that was a really electric moment!" One must brace against the turns to avoid sliding into the driver. She took command of the situation, telling them that they were now the only family she had. "They were talking about chord progressions and all this interesting stuff.". She had short hair she'd dyed blonde. ", David Kushneris a long-time contributor to Rolling Stone. "Well," she says, "I wasn't a musician. The personal relationships within the band and their own personal relationships shattered under tremendous pressure. Ken (Kesey) could have made yard art out of it. It was all so incredible. "I think there was a realistic amount of sexual activity up there," Garcia says, "but it was certainly not out of bounds or weird or anything like that. He put the mojo on me. "That's the coolest thing I ever saw. Today, vestiges of the slender, heart-stoppingly beautiful girl-woman who caught Kesey's eye in 1964 remain - the fierce intelligence, the take-control bossy stick, the intellectual acuity, the ability to cut through a morass of pretense to the heart of the matter, the boisterousness, the guilelessness, the curiosity, the laughter. I mean, there were no "scenes.' At 710, Mountain Girl imposed order like a drill sergeant. "I was on the hunt for compatible people," says Garcia now. "There was something that needed to be done and when you got all these people together, it was suddenly possible to do it. She opted out of the Grateful Dead scene for the sake of her three little girls, Sunshine Kesey, her daughter with Ken Kesey, and Annabelle and Theresa Garcia, her children with Jerry Garcia. The City of Springfield is installing a two-story, photorealistic painted mural of Ken Kesey downtown on the side of the Odd Fellows Building, current, Renowned author and Merry Prankster Ken Kesey grew up in Springfield. The Bus had been abandoned in a muddy, mossy swale behind the Kesey compound for three years. Says Rock Scully, the Dead's road manager for many years, "Jerry Garcia was married to his guitar and the muse and his human relationships suffered for it. It is to Pleasant Hill that Carolyn Garcia retreated many years ago, during her nearly three decade liaison and marriage to Jerry Garcia - the totemic Captain Trips, guitar-genius/linchpin of the Grateful Dead - when the druggy Deadhead scene got too weird and dangerous. Not a subscriber? ", But, laughs Scully, "Nobody ever saw her and Jerry because they never came out of their room. Jerry was never with another woman who matched him as elegantly as she did, with her kind of energy and intelligence. Says Kesey: "There was never a question that she would not have the baby, gosh, no. Tiffany Eckert 12 of 15 The Simpsons family are from Springfield, Oregon Matt Groening 13 of 15 Led by Ken Kesey, the swashbuckling author of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," the communal crew of seekers and misfits road-tripped the USA in Furthur, experimenting with the sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll that would come to define their generation. But to her, it didn't feel like the same party anymore. Our writers provide thought-provoking perspectives, informed by analysis, reporting, and expertise. Compared to what the fans know and want to cultivate, Im no expert. He was losing me and Sunshine.". Also, at the end of the day, the whole world is a mystery. "It's the thing that runs through all of this history. The intellectual climate at Kesey's was free of academic constraints," remembers Carolyn Garcia. Theres a simplicity with the no-nonsense, real-deal, getto-the-good-music feel of the space. (December 12, 1996). Were real people. "I wanted to stay with my Prankster buddies. People were just sleeping on the street in their shorts in the San Francisco fog, and getting terribly chilled. Soon after they coupled up, Mountain Girl moved with the baby into 710 Ashbury, the Dead's commune in the Haight, coincidentally on the day that Tangerine moved out. Dean Budnick on December 2, 2020 Carolyn "Mountain Girl" Garcia, Sunshine Kesey, Trixie Garcia and Annabelle Garcia "I sincerely believe that the more people that we can expose to Jerry's. Countless companies vied for such a coveted collaboration. Complete independence. "She didn't move into another woman's house," says Tangerine. He was 53. She also says that she started putting on weight "out of self-defense. "Garcia's Ex-Wife to Get $1.25 Million: 'Mountain Girl' had sued star's estate". "It was too much travel." They were going to look for Kesey. She got a lot more happiness than anyone else in Grateful Dead Land.". "My father was not a person who was ambitious in a materialistic way," says Carolyn's brother, Gordon Adams, 57, who runs a computer help line for architects and designers in Seattle. And her first with a chauvinistic rock 'n' roll culture that relegated the band's "old ladies" to caretaker status. Mountain Girl had to "marry" her fellow Prankster George Walker to get the birth certificate. ", "I never spoke with her about any of it until after the fact," said Sue Swanson. "Hitchhiked up I-5, pregnant with no money whatsoever, begging cups of coffee off of people." [6], She had a relationship with another Prankster named George Walker, who would become her husband in 1966. Kesey seemed weary, a cruise director at the end of a long and tiring voyage. You could feel it. I got a huge jolt, and I had a very vivid image of us being together. They had not lived together for years, although once in a while they got together with the children during a holiday or when the Dead were in town playing a concert. He never did respond well to pressure of any kind. I know they had a big love with one another. "I began to realize the dangers of celebrity that had to do with the Grateful Dead attracting a lot of people to themselves who were unconventional. Left to moulder in the weeds. So I have a degree in painting from there, although its not super helpful in a lot of the business stuff that Ive come into, like negotiating contracts with huge companies. The concert had been meant to revive the spirit of a generation. Either you were with Kesey or not with Kesey. Last year, rapper Method Man launched TICAL flower and followed up recently with. Because Jerry and I honorably tried to do a deal that covered everything, that made me happy. But God, if somebody didn't cook, do you know what they would eat? Once again, Carolyn took her children away to Oregon, to a newly purchased patch of verdant acreage in the Willamette Valley. She hallucinated "pyramids and parrots and lush jungle vegetation," she says. The resurgence of life. "She had the ability to meld her energy with the energy of others to do more than what one person could do by themselves. Again, it was time to extricate herself and rescue her children. She never taught me any rules and benched me forever." It was the summer of 1963. Had a quick mind - quick on the pickup with puns, jokes and comments. Ratburgers.". It was the honorable thing to do and it should be honored. The tiny kitchen downstairs was the crossroads, we jammed in there for morning cornflakes and conversation. In those days, Mountain Girl was the brash, 19-year-old "it girl" of the nascent psychedelic underground. "It was fall. I mean, yuck! "The Haight-Ashbury era," as Tom Wolfe later wrote, "began that weekend.". Jerry didn't really do a lot of maintenance. "We were trying to do an end run on the legal system and get the ball around to the other side of the court without having to engage a whole lot of people in the process. "His whole thing was to drive to San Francisco, play a gig, go home, go to sleep, get up, have breakfast, drive to San Francisco, play a gig. "Neal basically dropped me off like fresh meat," she recalls. He stole her white Alfa Romeo and drove it into a ditch; he papered the town of Stinson Beach with bad checks and told people that she would pay his bills and he let the air out of the tires of her VW van. It was something we did amongst ourselves. I think that two people hiding out in the same family would have been even more difficult. Mountain Girl walked around it, peering in the windows. Special Thanks to: Trixie Garcia, Annabelle Garcia, Heather Katz, Sunshine Kesey, Carolyn Adams Garcia, Keelin Garcia, Manasha Garcia, Coran Capshaw, Jonathan Blaufarb and Vivek Sridharan at Counsel, LLP, Elliot Groffman, Paul Gutman, Ira Friedman and David Keady At Carroll, Guido and Groffman, LLP, Mark Pinkus, Jeffrey Norman, David Lemieux, Steve Parish, Bill Orner, AND A VERY SPECIAL THANK . Tags Arts & Culture Springfield ken kesey Sunshine Kesey Road Trip Tiffany Eckert Tiffany joined the KLCC News team in 2007. "We mustered the instruments up on the roof thinking to lead a parade to the Cow Palace. After marrying "partly for tax purposes and partly out of a fond flickering of a once-bright romance"[8][1] in late 1981, this arrangement persisted until Garcia entered a diabetic coma in 1986. "I felt bad when it was taken down into the woods and abandoned. She wrote one of the first books on marijuana farming, "The Primo Plant: Growing Sinsemilla Marijuana," back in 1977. The band is comprised of former members Bob Weir (guitar), Mickey Hart (drums) and Bill Kreutzmann (drums) and new additions John Mayer (guitar), Oteil Burbrdige (bass/drums) and Jeff Chimenti. "I was glad he wasn't there," she says, "but I was a little hurt he didn't come to see me." The windows are busted. Well, I loved Kerouac.". Why, I take four or five to go to sleep!". Mountain Girl cherished the quiet moments with Garcia in their room, nursing Sunshine in bed as he noodled her favorite tune, "Viola Lee Blues," on his guitar. That was my big goal as a child. I had three old couch pillows and my sleeping bag, with a tarp tacked up overhead for the few rain or fog drips that penetrated the treetops. "She never defined it as shit. "I could play with that.". What she didn't realize, until Neal had peeled off the road and started driving the wrong way down a railroad track, was that he was none other than Neal Cassady, the inspiration for Jack Kerouac's 1967 Beat classic "On the Road.". "He just disappeared. she recalls with a laugh. "That hating is a quick step away from death - that going through your life being resentful and hateful and nasty about others is going to destroy your life. But at the same time, he had a family and was "very married, with the cutest three little kids you ever saw in your whole life. "I didn't witness it," he says carefully, "but I heard from (one of her best friends) that Garcia pursued her with a focus that could not be broken. "The band got to be very big and very much the nexus and focus of hundreds and thousands of people. View All Result . ", "Don't kid yourself," says Jon McIntire. She eschewed the fashion pursuits of the time. The family moved from house to house (Annabelle Garcia says that she went to no less than 13 schools, "just like an Army brat" ). "We were delighted. Special thanks to: Trixie Garcia, Annabelle Garcia, Tiff Garcia, Heather Katz, Sunshine Kesey, Carolyn Adams Garcia, Keelin Garcia, Manasha Garcia, Coran Capshaw, Jonathan Blaufarb and Vivek Sridharan at Councel, LLP, Elliot Groffman, Paul Gutman, Ira Friedman and Kelly Corson at Carroll, Guido and Groffman, LLP, Mark Pinkus, Nicholas Meriwether, Jeffrey Norman, David Lemieux, Steve Parish . But part of it was MG and the family and wanting to embrace that. Le concert de Grateful Dead dans l'Oregon en 1972 a sauv la laiterie de la famille Kesey et est devenu une lgende de la contre. What the hell is going on? Kesey had just been sentenced to six months on a work farm for marijuana possession, and the Pranksters were two days away from staging their biggest Acid Test yet. It seems like theres often a charitable component. We also partnered with Tessemaes, which is an eco-conscious salad dressing company. Somehow she and Garcia remained intertwined through it all. "I'm standing there, it's like 6 in the morning," she recalls. Kesey dubbed them the Acid Tests. Finances were cleared up. Carolyn Mountain Girl Garcia, Sunshine Kesey, Trixie Garcia and Annabelle Garcia, I sincerely believe that the more people that we can expose to Jerrys playing and the kind of person that he was, the better we can make the world. he asked me. "He'd fill it with music, drugs, girlfriends, whatever. Cassady, she learned, had come across her at the caf while he was making a drug run to pick up the amphetamine pills Kesey needed to stay alert. The riotous paint job was murky and peeling, as if the bus had leprosy. Carolyn Adams heard Jerry Garcia before she saw him. The group, she realized, "was his version of the nuthouse. "You could tell the number of people was way exceeding the ability of anybody to deal with it." "It's an old story. It was more than just hormones and the passion of new love that kept Mountain Girl and Jerry Garcia together. The wind blew the cottony clouds around in a brisk Oregon morning and Mountain Girl, oh-so-daintily for her bulk, padded across a slippery board laid to traverse a narrow creek. She named her baby girl Sunshine Kesey. Tracks Festival Fever K.C. It was all over the newspapers, and it was a huge story, and we felt guilty at having called for this." Their adventures, as immortalized in Tom Wolfe's seminal book "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test," inspired legions of young people eager to break the shackles of the 1950s and embark on a new age of personal freedom. When her youngest brother, Don, offered her a ride to California, she took it. Le yaourt gratuit n'a pas dur longtemps.Chuck et Sue Kesey s'attendaient ce qu'environ 5. I look at it another way as well. None of the various women and children in his life could dispute that. As someone with an artistic background and skill set, to what extent do you like to get involved in different aesthetic decisions relative to that venue or any of your familys collaborative projects? Through our Discourse journalism, Insider seeks to explore and illuminate the days most fascinating issues and ideas. Throughout his adventures, he had always come back to Mountain Girl. My moms memoir has become my number-one focus over the past six months. I was just on board to do whatever.". She quickly joined the inner circle of Pranksters and became romantically involved with Kesey, having a daughter together named Sunshine. But Ive gotten more confident as far as using my creative impulses or intuition to help guide the look and feel of some of the brand licenses and products. We had so much fun on that bus. ", But Mountain Girl and Jerry remained intertwined through it all. Inside her plant-filled home lined with scientific books on psilocybin and posters of the Grateful Dead, Carolyn "Mountain Girl" Garcia, legendary godmother of the hippie counterculture, Jerry's ex-wife, and mother of their two daughters, sits on a red leather couch dressed in a red shirt and purple pants. Looking back on it, Adams realized that Cassady was handing her over to the Chief, along with the drugs. By then, things at their Stinson Beach aerie, Sans Souci, on a ridge high above the beach, had gotten pretty weird. Not even when she and Jerry, after two children and 15 years together, got married on New Year's Eve 1981, between sets at the Dead's traditional New Year's show. I was hallucinating. . To what extent do you currently explore your own creative expressions? But I was a little envious of the glamour queens, you know. None. From the affair with Kesey to the agony and ecstasy of her decades with Jerry, Mountain Girl was writing it all down in letters and journal entries. Shes @bluebelle42 on Instagram. KLCCs Tiffany Eckert speaks to Sunshine Kesey, daughter of Ken Kesey, about their family life, Keseys wrestling start at Springfield High School and his indelible mark on a generation. Despite the free-love ethos of the Sixties, she could feel the tension her affair with Kesey generated in the group. And Mountain Girl wasn't sure how she felt about it. Thirty years ago, in the dawning of psychedelia, Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, that tatterdemalion pre-hippie/post-Beat caravansary of performers, musicians, poets, magicians, gypsies, tramps and fools crammed into their gaily-painted 1939 International-Harvester, and drove their way into the American consciousness on the rollicking prose of Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. she realized she needed to make a change. That was the world. He was 53. I decided not to do much. Sunshine was about two or three months old and she was in this little basket. "There are things that can happen to people. I think that its very important for her voice to be in the mix and very important that she is able to share how these different events unfoldedthe way she remembers them. "It seemed the only safe place," she recalls. It had been only two years since she'd met Kesey and taken up with the Pranksters, but it felt like a lifetime. Everyone would drink the LSD-spiked Kool-Aid and dance under the kaleidoscopic lights to their very own house band, the newly anointed Grateful Dead. Mountain Girl (Carolyn Elizabeth Garcia) with her three daughters, Sunshine Kesey,(daughter of Ken Kesey), Theresa Adams "Trixie" Garcia, Annabelle Walker Garcia. And now, The Bus was retired. "There were always girls coming out of the woodwork," says Mountain Girl. She studied journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia and has worked in a variety of media including television and daily print news. It was sort of the unfortunate consequences of my actions, my procreative act. With Sunshine slung to her hip, Mountain Girl fell into communal living again. "I was jealous of the freedom the boys seemed to have and I was always angling for another little slice of freedom. ", The closer she grew to Jerry, the further she drifted from Kesey. ", One day, when she was up in San Francisco, her attorney got a call. Snacks, live music, wine, beer & giveaways! But when choosing partners, products and people that are gonna go out there and represent Jerry, its important to pick the right people. Eight months pregnant, Mountain Girl stepped off the Dead's helicopter at Altamont just in time to see Mick Jagger get punched in the head by a concertgoer. Jerry was married with a daughter of his own, but they had moved back to Palo Alto without him. "I was very upset," she recalls. Jerry and Carolyn were married by a Jewish friend who was also a Tibetan monk in a ceremony missed by most of the band members. The free concert, scheduled for December 6, 1969, at the Altamont Speedway in Northern California, would include performances by the Dead, Santana, Jefferson Airplane, and the Rolling Stones. "Just about nothing. Through our Discourse journalism, Insider seeks to explore and illuminate the days most fascinating issues and ideas. "That left a giant hole in his personality he was constantly trying to fill," she says. By the time she walked into the Dead's kitchen, Mountain Girl had attained iconic status, although it was not her way to pay any attention to it. MG, as her family and friends call her, is finally ready to be the author of her own story. !Destination #3: CorvallisVan Buren Street Bridge, CorvallisWhen: Tuesday, 11/28/17 4-6 pmWhere: Sky High BrewingWhat: KLCC Staff will meet with area listeners to learn more about the Corvallis community. He was sad. The quote from Trixie in Long Strange Trip about her "knowing not to . They produced two daughters. So Garcias Hand Picked means that we are actually in there tasting and trying these products. While life at home was an intellectual paradise, school was quite another matter. One of their cats was killed. "They gave you enough so that you were transported to the geometrical universe where everything was in squares and triangles," she says. I went to the San Francisco Art Institute because my dad had a history there, and I was kind of looking for direction when I was younger. Their agrarian entourage includes a quartet of donkeys, a dozen sheep, two dogs (Chiquita, an ancient, deaf Border Collie mix and Penny, an apricot standard poodle) and two cats. Jerry Garcia exclaimed. With the New York trip done, he was planning what he called a "Prankster Farewell Party," a send-off for those who now had to return to their jobs and lives. "I was sitting on the ground, and all of a sudden the redwood needles started to rearrange themselves. When she came to the one on the door that read "Nothing Lasts," she stopped in her tracks. I know shes been working on her memoir. A A. It was not a mistake. Certainly, for my own peace of mind, I cant work with anyone who thinks my dad was a deity or something. Be the first to know about the Grateful Dead's exclusive limited-edition releases, breaking news on the band, community events, and so much more. Kesey was just down the road, but to Mountain Girl he still felt miles away. Weve met lots of people and toured lots of different places, and thought about many different ways to structure this. She visits family and friends, including old Pranksters like Ken Babbs who have made Oregon their home, and spends her days reading, working on her memoir, and gardening. "We felt guilty at having called for this." "I stayed up in Oregon much longer than I thought I should. I walked over to look, amazed. One thing that he did not want was any disclosure. Sunshine Kesey sits with her Grandmother, Geneva Jolley. And these were Cocaine Katies? "I slept with some of the other Pranksters from time to time." Mountain Girl was equally defiant about their arrest. 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