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International Harvester. Production. 1939. ( 1939) Assembly. United States. Inside Furthur, psychedelic paintings. Furthur is a 1939 International Harvester school bus purchased by author Ken Kesey in 1964 to carry his "Merry Band of Pranksters" cross-country, filming their counterculture adventures as they went.
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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.
Furthur: The Bus Then & Now. In 1964, Ken Kesey and his group of “Merry Pranksters,” fueled by LSD and a free-wheeling spirit of adventure, painted a 1939 International Harvester school bus in DayGlo colors and piloted it across the US on a trip that would go down in history as a cultural milestone. The bus, dubbed “Further” (or ...
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 ...
Jul 30, 2021 · The Untold Truth Of The Merry Pranksters. If America is an open road, then the American counterculture of the 1960s is best described as a bus, hand-painted and packed with people, roaring toward the horizon. Immortalized in Tom Wolfe's cult classic "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" and imitated by generations of young movements looking to go ...
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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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 ...
