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But when choosing partners, products and people that are gonna go out there and represent Jerry, its important to pick the right people. It was not to be. Sunshine Kesey is known for Move Me Brightly: Celebrating Jerry Garcia's 70th Birthday (2013). She'd gotten to know Jerry a little better, having spent a cold night in the bus platonically huddling between him and Pigpen, the Dead's keyboardist, for warmth. When Thompson and the Hells Angels showed up for parties, Mountain Girl was soon giving them rides on the back of their own Harleys. Mountain Girl, eight months pregnant, hitchhiked to get groceries. And I was like: What a bunch of baloney. 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. Were trying to live up to a set of ideals and work with folks who understand what Jerry means to people. The. Jerry promised that they would get a house together. After leaving Kesey in Mexico, where he was hiding out to avoid US drug charges, Mountain Girl returned to San Francisco with a newborn and an uncertain future. What the hell just happened? The moment she hugged him, she felt a flash. that was it for him. If Mountain Girl wanted to come, she better hitchhike down to LA fast, before they split. Theres so much scrutiny and I just wanna enjoy it. 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. We tried to keep the mess to a minimum. So Ive gotten much smaller. Sunshine Kesey is one of renown author and merry maker, Ken Kesey's, children. The riotous paint job was murky and peeling, as if the bus had leprosy. We were very, very happy with each other. ", It was her first glimpse of Furthur, the bus Kesey and the Pranksters had just driven to and from the World's Fair in New York, becoming poster children for the promise and perils of life, liberty, and LSD. So youve gotta stay grounded, stay humble, be realistic. "That was my golden destination.". "We didn't have the education that modern America has now to help us talk about our roles. I was floored. But facing the judge, she was sharp enough to know who they were really after: Kesey. Release Calendar Top 250 Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Movie News India Movie Spotlight. Adams was offered a job in the Stanford cafeteria, but drawing on her knowledge of science she hustled one in the organic-chemistry lab instead. In 1959, Kesey had been a volunteer in a C.I.A.-sponsored LSD experiment at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Menlo Park. Thats a whole thing that wasnt even acceptable in the fine art world like 20 years ago. ", "She is an authentic personality," says Dennis McNally, former public relations manager for the Grateful Dead and now publicist for Grateful Dead Productions. GarciaLive Volume 17 showcases highlights from three stand-out shows captured in the Jerry Garcia Band's native Northern California. I know he had asked for space, as he put it earlier in the year, and I said, "Sure, whatever you need.' So its important that we all have been able to transform it into a time of reflection and celebration, which has helped to bring our community back together over time. I mean, yuck! Other Pranksters went back and forth to America, but without money or means Mountain Girl felt trapped in Mexico. ", Flush with cash, she bought a white Honda 50 scooter and took to riding up and down the coast. So that kind of separated me. "I was mortified," she says. 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. "The job was to run the mass spectrometer on the night shift," she writes in her memoir. After moving in with Jerry, the teenage matriarch of the Pranksters became the "den mother," as she puts it, of the Grateful Dead: cooking, cleaning, rustling them out the door on time. "The Beatles came to the old Cow Palace down in the mudflat south of San Francisco," she reads. No money, hardly any clothes, and no real concept of what was coming. One of her father's progenitors was Dr. Samuel Adams, a physician in General Burgoyne's army during the Revolutionary War. she realized she needed to make a change. It was a form of synesthesia: little notes with different little cartoon beings, each with its own personality. The mythology of the time, and the dynamic young woman at the heart of it, was written mostly by men Wolfe, Kesey, Allen Ginsberg, Hunter S. Thompson, Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady all of whom fashioned themselves as the hypermasculine heroes of their own stories. I painted that bus! "I was jealous of the freedom the boys seemed to have and I was always angling for another little slice of freedom. "The weight thing wasn't that simple. Our room at the top of the stairs was small, a comforting retreat, with a huge flag covering one wall, and a window looking out over the weedy garden. He was 53. She quit LSD, but she fell into a postpartum depression as her reality came into focus. While she was fast approaching her due date, Kesey was off dealing with his lawyers. I was obliged to hang onto Bradley. But as Garcia's addiction worsened, Mountain Girl took their daughters and moved to a farm in Oregon, where some of the other Pranksters had moved. It was difficult, but it was worth it," says Carolyn Garcia. Her eyes well with tears. "He was just the guitar player," she says. "I always wanted to be a writer," she tells me with a sly smile. It was a tremendously exhilarating, positive experience about relating to everything around you. The Bus had been abandoned in a muddy, mossy swale behind the Kesey compound for three years. Chuck dan Sue Kesey mengharapkan sekitar 5. You know. His eyes smiled. She quickly joined the inner circle of Pranksters and became romantically involved with Kesey, having a daughter together named Sunshine. What is your perspective on how it has evolved? ", Her mother, a botanist and a school teacher, "abhorred gender classification," says Garcia. After so many years of struggling to fit in back in New York, she had finally found a place where she could be whoever she wanted. The bus is rusted and broken down. And Faye, his wife, was struggling with the whole thing. By then she was five months pregnant. She affected black turtlenecked sweaters and carried books of poetry. "It took the edge off me, to be carrying a kid," she says. Tom Wolfe's New York magazine pieces may have put her on the map, but she says, "I really didn't have an attachment to a personal image. It was all over the newspapers, and it was a huge story, and we felt guilty at having called for this." "He'd fill it with music, drugs, girlfriends, whatever. He had dumped all of his belongings in the Garcia driveway, including a box with a cat in it. At first, in the disorienting wake of the Sixties, she and Jerry had retreated to a secluded home in Stinson Beach, California, where the girls grew up. Eventually, the rest of the Pranksters loaded themselves onto Furthur and trekked down to Manzanillo, where they lived in a small rancho with a red and white checkerboard roof. 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. She wrote about the ride, and reads it to me: Meanwhile, fumbling in his pocket, he produces a handful of pills, and an assortment of newspaper clippings and matches. None of the various women and children in his life could dispute that. 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. As the Dead began putting out records and touring, Mountain Girl, who had a child to raise, began feeling the strain. Readers have been afforded plenty of accounts of riding shotgun with Cassady, but never from the perspective of a hitchhiking woman. When I came to, my boss was shaking me by the shoulder. [6], She had a relationship with another Prankster named George Walker, who would become her husband in 1966. Please enjoy this full-length feature from our October/November Issue. But Jerry had up and died. On April 3, Marin County Superior Court Judge Michael Dufficy handed down a 10-page decision stating that the one-paragraph agreement drafted by Garcia and Mountain Girl is a valid contract and legally binds the estate. "Because Mountain Girl went through this movement once before," says Rachel Anderson, the group's cofounder, "she's seen what worked and what didn't work.". Snacks, live music, wine, beer & giveaways! Carolyn "went to war with her" and eventually, the gym teacher saw to it that she was expelled only six weeks before graduation. But there was a part of Jerry's and my relationship that was unshatterable by any means that's persisted until today. Obviously, were not huge, but it would be nice to do something like that one day. While that led to a lengthy period of cohabitation in which Carolyn Garcia played an integral role in her husband's recovery, they gradually drifted apart once more when Garcia began an extramarital relationship and fathered a child with Manasha Matheson. But, says Gordon "Dass" Adams, Carolyn Garcia's oldest brother, "Jerry was a lousy husband.". No Result . GarciaLive Volume 19: October 31st, 1992 Oakland Coliseum Arena showcases Garcia's return to the stage with the Jerry Garcia Band following a second major health crisis. However out of step she had felt among the kids back home, she now found her place among the generation's leading artists, writers, and radicals: Timothy Leary ("I thought he was kind of an actor he was busy playing a role"), Albert Hoffmann, the chemist who discovered LSD ("a saint and a mystic, and a gay man, just a sweetheart"), Hunter S. Thompson ("an important guy for the country"). [11][12] She formerly served on the board of the Women's Visionary Council. 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"But Ken by that time was also aging, not too gracefully, and I don't drink. Palo Alto in the early 1960s was a dynamic crucible of the radical changes to come. ", But, laughs Scully, "Nobody ever saw her and Jerry because they never came out of their room. ", Cassady's car actually belonged to Kesey, who was living with his Prankster band up at La Honda in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Eventually, rejection by her peers got easier to handle. ", The joy and harmony in the Garcia family was challenged further in 1975, shortly after the birth of the Garcias' second daughter, Theresa, nicknamed "Trixie" by Kit Candaleria, one of the Dead's roadies. "Where did you come from?" "Ooh, man," she told him, "there's something. Mountain Girl was equally defiant about their arrest. "I haven't had another relationship really since then. Growing up, I went to the high school where 420 was coined [San Rafael High School], so theres that. His eyes smiled. While living together over the next decade, they raised Sunshine along with their two daughters. ", One day, when she was up in San Francisco, her attorney got a call. Mountain Girl and Jerry moved into an apartment of their own, and she got pregnant again. It hadn't been running for a very long time. He was one of these people where the first time you see him, he's kind of personable, and then the next time, he's starting to disintegrate.". "He seemed to be a dangerous kind of guy, sort of angular, like a trucker. Chips and Twinkies. She had $600 in her pocket and she was 17 years old. In 1975, when Theresa Garcia was not even a year old, Jerry disappeared. Mountain Girl would ride Rush's bike over a rutted short cut to the hospital and sit by Jerry's bed, willing him to live. Mountain Girl's bitterness, if she ever had any (and she denies that she ever did), probably dried up long ago. Both of her parents encouraged her interest in the natural world. During this period, he rekindled his relationship with Koons, who had been largely out of his life since the late 1970s; they would ultimately marry in February 1994. It was sort of the unfortunate consequences of my actions, my procreative act. She refused to rat her hair or wear makeup. No Result . Since coming back to the States, he'd been embroiled in legal battles over his marijuana charges. "Hitchhiked up I-5, pregnant with no money whatsoever, begging cups of coffee off of people." Her maternal grandfather was a missionary in Allahabad, India, where her mother grew up. As a result, the prevailing narrative of Mountain Girl in the popular imagination reads like a comic-book male fantasy: saucy, sexy, sassy, "swinging into every situation like on a vine," as Wolfe wrote, "like Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.". That was the world. My mom raised me, and she protected us from all of that by moving us to rural Oregon. Self-reliant as always, MG constructed her own little home in the woods: I had built a small shelter in a grove of trees by the creek. Joy and excitement; uncertainty and pain. Kesey describes that first meeting with a literary allusion: "Vonnegut's phrase a "karass' comes to mind. She was turning a corner so fast, she was leaning down, close to parallel with the pavement on this windy, twisty mountain road, her long, black hair flying out behind her, lookin' good. It was a short hop back to addiction. It was like opting to be an alien. [Laughs.]. "Now what will that do?" Tiffany Eckert 10 of 15 The Kesey Clan surrounds Geneva Jolley Kesey Family 11 of 15 Springfield's Peter DeFazio at his Congressional Headquarters. 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. Snacks, beer, giveaways! 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. "She ended up being responsible (if that concept is even thinkable in this context) for mixing the multiple mutable audio loops connecting every part of the space with every other. 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. "I stayed up in Oregon much longer than I thought I should. 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. Through our Discourse journalism, Insider seeks to explore and illuminate the days most fascinating issues and ideas. She wasn't a judgmental kind of person, she was just brutally frank. 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. Tidak ada hasil . The Pranksters were gassing up the bus to head to Mexico. Instead, he decided to hide it. That would have been a sin. Read more Discourse stories here. ", One night in San Francisco, four months after the Beatles show, Kesey and Mountain Girl were up on the roof of a home in Telegraph Hill, smoking a joint. "[1], In early 1964, she met Neal Cassady, who introduced her to Ken Kesey and his friends, one of whom gave her the name "Mountain Girl" because she was a "little bit wild. And she wanted to help that greatness.". I want to be lighting fires with a flint and steel! For the two of them, says Scully, "it was a great big love.". Cassady had told Kesey that he met this girl who was a little wild, "like she was kind of a mountain girl," says Kesey. Jerry was never with another woman who matched him as elegantly as she did, with her kind of energy and intelligence. "I always get emotional about the old bus. I was way upset. When she came to the one on the door that read "Nothing Lasts," she stopped in her tracks. A month after the Grateful Dead's summer 1995 tour concluded, Garcia died at a rehabilitation facility in August 1995. There are a lot of people like that. I had no idea what he was doing. I still enjoy making art as part of my range of hobbies and skills. She studied journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia and has worked in a variety of media including television and daily print news. Jerry didn't really do a lot of maintenance. Countless companies vied for such a coveted collaboration. So Garcias Hand Picked means that we are actually in there tasting and trying these products. Neal is oblivious to any obstacles of destruction, and hogs the middle of the road, rocketing from one side to the other as the demands of the road dictate. I did try to run their sound board for a while, but I wasn't good at it. After moving in with Garcia, Mountain Girl became the "den mother," as she puts it, of the Grateful Dead: cooking, cleaning, rustling them out the door on time. Tidak ada hasil . (December 12, 1996). ", The Pranksters, ever dutiful, came to his aid. It felt as though the scene she had helped create was starting to lose its luster, the summer of love devolving into something chaotic and ugly. You could feel it. It happened in the summer of 1964 at St. Michael's Caf in Palo Alto, California. 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. Two years later, she got the dreaded call: Garcia had died of a heart attack at a drug-treatment facility. This is absolute magic, she thought. The machine was down. Why, I take four or five to go to sleep!". "I was a total tomboy. I walked over to look, amazed. To ensure that the baby, named Solano in Spanish (which, laughs Garcia, means "sun porch" ) would have legal U.S. citizenship, Mountain Girl married a pretty blond Prankster named George Walker. "He was just the guitar player," she says. I didn't know what to do. "I didn't know what to do. She arrived in California, like many at the time, eager to bloom. ", Still facing pot charges in San Francisco, she had to hitchhike up and down the coast for her court appearances, five hours each way. I know they had a big love with one another. The previously unreleased complete performance is mastered from John Cutler's original soundboard recordings. "I was no longer in charge of my own destiny.". Thats what motivates me to continue to do licensing, Jerry Garcias daughter Trixie reflects, as she discusses her familys recent business ventures. At the police station, speaking with a reporter, Kesey suggested that he was being persecuted for his role in the counterculture. His smile looms like a half moon that spins along with us through the trees. So when a guy named Bradley and his fast-talking friend Neal approached her at the caf and offered her a lift, she decided to see where the adventure would lead. But unbeknownst to the guys, she was taking notes. Thats also important. Kesey seemed weary, a cruise director at the end of a long and tiring voyage. In October 1966, with her visa up, she rode back to San Francisco with her baby and the Pranksters. There were people everywhere looking for anything, looking for a place to lie down. "I haven't had another relationship really since then. "He was not happy to see me," she says. ", But Mountain Girl and Jerry remained intertwined through it all. Attractive in every possible way. The intellectual climate at Kesey's was free of academic constraints," remembers Carolyn Garcia. The Oregon connection centered her and gave her the strength to go on. Mountain Girl believes he was still suffering from the trauma of seeing his father, Joe, drown on a fishing trip when he was 6. But she embraced it nonetheless. "She had the ability to meld her energy with the energy of others to do more than what one person could do by themselves. It was the summer of 1963. The farm hasn't changed much. He was losing me and Sunshine.". She was about to become the unlikely teenage matriarch for the counterculture's most celebrated influencers, the Merry Pranksters, who gave her a new name: Mountain Girl. She wrote one of the first books on marijuana farming, "The Primo Plant: Growing Sinsemilla Marijuana," back in 1977. Tracks Listen Buy How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) Stop That Train Those two are the biggest people in every way - big souls, big hearts, big egos, big personalities. He was clean out of necessity. But basically, she was assigned to the traditional women's stuff of keeping a home, albeit a very large and unruly one. Mountain Girl had seen the Dead in its earlier incarnations, but she didn't take special note of Jerry. Well, I loved Kerouac.". At 710, Mountain Girl imposed order like a drill sergeant. I should also point out that Im a huge cannabis fan. "She was Jerry's girlfriend. His new book is "Easy to Learn, Difficult to Master: Pong, Atari, and the Dawn of the Video Game.". She was judge and jury in those days. But who is this woman who attracted Ken Kesey and Jerry Garcia, two of the most powerful influences on the popular culture in the past three decades? Garcia to Deborah Koons and Mountain Girl back to Oregon and the big, rugged logger she had met, Bill Burwell. The loss of his father was absolutely devastating for him as a little boy.". "I didn't want any whinging. And then this sort of unusual set of circumstances occurred whereby Jerry " Her conversation tails off into an uncomfortable silence. They spent all the time in Jerry's room being in love. "She never defined it as shit. It sounds like all of these endeavors require a balance between your free-spirited nature and a need to focus on business matters. "Later MG told me that when she met Jerry," remembers McIntire, "she recognized in him that his music was the stuff of greatness. I think everybody had a crush on her.". Retired Prankster Lee Quanstrom, a Santa Cruz-based journalist, has vivid memories of Mountain Girl. Its a balance, absolutely. In early 1964, she met Neal Cassady, who introduced her to countercultural figure and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest author Ken Kesey. But she wasn't looking for another man to step in. Once you've had a little kid, it's very difficult to focus on being a P.A. But she felt as if he'd scored Kesey something else as well: this plucky 19-year-old from Poughkeepsie. She has no regrets. The real story of Mountain Girl, as I've learned after months of talking to her, is far more complex. His life as a fugitive seemed to be taking a toll on him, along with his seemingly unlimited intake of speed. Mountain Girl and Garcia divorced in 1993. "You might say I was in denial," she says. Surrounded by towering redwoods, the place seemed to be recovering from an epic bender: cars and motorcycles everywhere, the ground littered with assorted detritus. 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. But, she emphasizes, the gestalt of the Dead, that the whole was so much greater than the parts, kept her a believer. Kesey didn't show up, even after the birth. "God knows what Jerry was doing when they were out on the road," she says. "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. It was like, Eww, thats folk art, what are you doing? But now theres a whole scene and a ton of people who are into it, and I think its beautiful. "He came out of a near death (experience) with this true resurrection feeling. It was a form of synesthesia: little notes with different little cartoon beings, each with its own personality. Inside was Kesey's suicide note: "Ocean, ocean, I'll beat you in the end," it read. For Carolyn Adams, the trip to wonderland started when a famously Mad Hatter offered her a ride. A framed photo of Kesey juggling apples hangs on a bright red wall. It was a complicated situation but there's one thing that anyone close to the couple agrees upon: It was a very big love. For MG, which is how her intimates shorten her name, the Pranksters were her college, the University of Fun. God, I was so thrilled. The psychedelic culture the Pranksters had pioneered DayGlo paint, jam bands, LSD had a new name: hippie. But I was anti-cocaine," she says pausing. Adams felt, as she puts it, "in a juvenile state of admiration for a good writer, for a famous person who is now taking me into his scene.". Last year, rapper Method Man launched TICAL flower and followed up recently with. I never socialized with the fan base or anything like that. After a harrowing experience nursing the baby while on acid "it magnifies the suction sensation to the maximum, like whoa!" When they returned, Jerry's heroin use was getting so extreme even Mountain Girl was noticing it. And it is in Pleasant Hill, in the bucolic greenness of the Willamette Valley, that she now lives on 16 acres with her new love, Bill Burwell, 49, a huge, shambling, robust ex-logger with a split between his teeth, ruddy cheeks and a long, salt-and-pepper gray pony tail. We also partnered with Tessemaes, which is an eco-conscious salad dressing company. And these were Cocaine Katies? 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. We cleaned our grass in an old aluminum colander, and stored the kilo of Acapulco gold in a kitchen cupboard. After splitting with Walker, she took up with Jerry Garcia, but they did not marry for many years after. They were monumental. "I was maintaining our home. In my case, with a powerful talent like Jerry and this tremendous culture-changing thing he'd found to do, it was a tough place to try to carry on a relationship. 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