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The Merry Pranksters were followers of American author Ken Kesey.Kesey and the Merry Pranksters lived communally at Kesey's homes in California and Oregon, and are noted for the sociological significance of a lengthy road trip they took in the summer of 1964, traveling across the United States in a psychedelic painted school bus called Furthur, organizing parties, and giving out LSD. [1]
Jul 30, 2021 · Immortalized in Tom Wolfe's cult classic "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" and imitated by generations of young movements looking to go against the grain of society, the road trip made by novelist Ken Kesey (above) and a dozen friends in the summer of 1964 has become an iconic symbol of a certain formulation of freedom in America.
Sep 2, 2011 · Such is the case with the story of Ken Kesey and the Merry Band of Pranksters. In 1964 they took a storied bus trip from California to New York and back. Some see it as the launching point of the ...
Jun 18, 2014 · And the legend lives on. Kesey's son, Zane, has raised more than $40,000 to stage a 50th anniversary cross-country road trip, minus the LSD that played such a big role in 1964. The trip will use Ken Kesey's updated version of Further. As for the original 1939 vehicle, the author parked it in a swamp on his Oregon farm.
Ken Elton Kesey [5] (September 17, 1935 – November 10, 2001) was an American novelist, essayist and countercultural figure. He considered himself a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s. Kesey was born in La Junta, Colorado, and grew up in Springfield, Oregon, graduating from the University of Oregon in ...
Aug 4, 2011 · Ken Kesey's infamous LSD-fueled bus expedition of 1964 is faithfully reconstructed by Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood, using archival footage recorded by the Pranksters and old interviews. But to ...
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Aug 4, 2011 · Back in California, Kesey and his friends, who would call themselves “The Merry Band of Pranksters,” outfitted a school bus for the journey, adding a generator, building a rooftop turret, and ...
