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Aug 12, 2011 · Author Ken Kesey poses in 1997 with his bus, "Further," a descendant of the vehicle that carried Kesey and the Merry Pranksters on the 1964 trip immortalized in Tom Wolfe's book The Electric Kool ...
Apr 2, 2014 · Novelist Ken Kesey wrote 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' and is credited with helping to usher in the era of psychedelic drugs in the 1960s. ... Kesey and the Merry Pranksters were also the ...
Aug 5, 2011 · Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place: Directed by Alison Ellwood, Alex Gibney. With Stanley Tucci, Jim Meskimen, Veronica Taylor, Timothy Leary. A freewheeling portrait of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters' fabled road trip across America.
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Fifty years after the iconic first Trip, Ken Kesey’s son Zane took Furthur-and his father’s legacy-back on the road for its longest running tour in history. Armed with a new band of Merry Pranksters, the Furthur bus traveled over 15,000 miles in 75 days, riding into music festivals, community events, tribal gatherings and national landmarks.
Jan 11, 2022 · Man: The public always grinned when they saw that bus. Woman: We are the Merry Band of Pranksters! Now at 86, Babbs has settled down with his wife and some farm animals near Dexter, Oregon. He visited KLCC studios to talk about his book, his friendship with Kesey, and experimentation with psychedelic drugs.
Kesey was born in La Junta, Colorado, on September 17, 1935. When he was eleven, his parents moved to the Springfield area to establish a dairy cooperative. In 1956, he married Faye Haxby. They had three children and raised a daughter from his liaison with fellow Merry Prankster Carolyn Adams. Kesey’s pugnacious personality was shaped during ...
