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1 day ago · Before Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band…before Timothy Leary…before Ken Kesey’s band of Merry Pranksters and their Electric Kool-Aid Acid Tests…before the dawn of the Grateful Dead, there was Alfred M. Hubbard: the Original Captain Trips. You will not read about him in the history books.
1 day ago · Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters once played here, as did the Grateful Dead and the Hell’s Angels. DINING: There are several places to eat and drink of note: Alice’s Restaurant, in Sky Londa, is not the spot of 1960s song, but it is the place for a breakfast or a gourmet sandwich. Apple Jack’s is lovingly called a “dive bar” by some ...
2 days ago · Norma Faye Hix Kesey (September 18, 1935 January 8, 2011) was an American counterculture figure best known for being the first wife of author Ken Kesey and a founding member of the Merry Band of Pranksters. Norma Faye Kesey is remembered for her spirited personality and her contributions to the counterculture movement of the 1960s.
19 hours ago · Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters helped shape the developing character of the 1960s counterculture when they embarked on a cross-country voyage during the summer of 1964 in a psychedelic school bus named Furthur.
3 days ago · Mostly celebrities of some kind, like Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, and Bob McKernan of the Grateful Dead, Yippies founder Paul Krassner, author and prankster Ken Kesey, spiritual teacher and psychologist Ram Das, Bob Dylan ̶ he even met and befriended Jimmy Carter. He married his best friend with whom he has remained head over heels in love since 1967.
19 hours ago · The environment was a large part of the counterculture movement in the 1960s, and the Eugene area was an epicenter for free thinkers like University of Oregon grad and novelist Ken Kesey and his ...
3 days ago · I am also reminded of something that the late, great Ken Kesey—Wavy’s fellow Merry Prankster—said about Jerry Garcia when the Grateful Dead guitarist died in 1995. "Jerry knocked a chunk out of the wall and let the light shine through, and it’s up to us to keep that light shining through, or someday we are going to have to answer to him.”
