"I'm so glad to see you!" For Carolyn Adams, the trip to wonderland started when a famously Mad Hatter offered her a ride. 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. At home in Oregon, where she's down to shrooming twice a year. But when choosing partners, products and people that are gonna go out there and represent Jerry, its important to pick the right people. I did try to run their sound board for a while, but I wasn't good at it. It happened in the summer of 1964 at St. Michael's Caf in Palo Alto, California. And frankly, I'm glad we didn't, because I think if we'd fought it out too much, we would have lost each other. You recently announced a partnership with Holistic Industries on Garcia Hand Picked. Ken Kesey's girlfriend Mountain Girl holds her baby daughter Sunshine. [1] She attended Franklin Delano Roosevelt High School in Hyde Park. 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"). That is really something." With the New York trip done, he was planning what he called a "Prankster Farewell Party," a send-off for those who now had to return to their jobs and lives. "You could tell the number of people was way exceeding the ability of anybody to deal with it." "Cassady was on a speed run, looking for bennies," Garcia remembers. "You have to be a pretty big person to hold your own with Kesey and Garcia and their milieu. She was caught napping each time. But basically, she was assigned to the traditional women's stuff of keeping a home, albeit a very large and unruly one. He could see the musical notes, he told her. Carolyn Adams is very proud of her family history. It's so sad.". Garcia to Deborah Koons and Mountain Girl back to Oregon and the big, rugged logger she had met, Bill Burwell. While living together over the next decade, they raised Sunshine along with their two daughters. I don't feel bad about it at all. They traveled as a couple, for instance, when the Dead went off to Egypt to play at the Pyramids in 1978. He certainly had me buffaloed on the dishwashing thing. It never happened. He was sad. "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. But God, if somebody didn't cook, do you know what they would eat? But for Mountain Girl, it lives forever, an emblem of everything her generation believed in, and all that they achieved. by Petrus A. Jerry was married with a daughter of his own, but they had moved back to Palo Alto without him. That was what was available, & it is still the best. I am also happy that we found companies that are privately owned and family run. Bill is finally the right person for my mom. Theyre like musicians; they just need assistance. Eventually, Kesey and his rag-tag band returned to the States, Mountain Girl and the baby in tow, to produce the final of the Acid Tests, the combination concert-performance-mass LSD trip (often courtesy of Owsley Stanley, who provided the psychedelics and was the money behind the house band, the Grateful Dead). "He seemed to be a dangerous kind of guy, sort of angular, like a trucker. Carolyn is such a big, energetic person and you could see, even at 17, the frustration with the mildness in her family situation (along) with the kind of isolation she had and lack of involvement in rough and tumble life. Carolyn Elizabeth Adams was born on May 6, 1946 in Poughkeepsie, New York, where she also grew up. Mountain Girl, second wife of Jerry Garcia, holds her daughter, Sunshine, backstage at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. Other Pranksters went back and forth to America, but without money or means Mountain Girl felt trapped in Mexico. "He went with it," she says, "and made sure that I had a place to sleep and food to eat. She wrote one of the first books on marijuana farming, "The Primo Plant: Growing Sinsemilla Marijuana," back in 1977. Its part of what I want to share with othersthat whole inner freedom and expansiveness. Ratburgers.". ", When I ask her how she felt about the name, she tells me she didn't like it because she didn't choose it. The Man Share Music Video for Dummy, Outline New LP, Joe Louis Walker: Scaling The Electric Fence. [1] Despite her maiden name, Garcia, she is not related to Jerry Garcia, an incorrect assumption made by some because of her involvement with Furthur, a post-Garcia incarnation of the Grateful Dead. Sunshine was about two or three months old and she was in this little basket. Getting on it was a liberating feeling. she recalls with a laugh. Sunshine Kesey is one of renown author and merry maker, Ken Kesey's, children. The bus is rusted and broken down. 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. I know they had a big love with one another. 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. Top editors give you the stories you want delivered right to your inbox each weekday. Be the first to know about the Grateful Dead's exclusive limited-edition releases, breaking news on the band, community events, and so much more. Their adventures, as immortalized in Tom Wolfe's seminal book "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test," inspired legions of young people eager to break the shackles of the 1950s and embark on a new age of personal freedom. From her parents, young Carolyn inherited an adoration of nature. so did Carolyn Garcia, with Sunshine, her baby daughter with . !Destination #3: CorvallisVan Buren Street Bridge, CorvallisWhen: Tuesday, 11/28/17 4-6 pmWhere: Sky High BrewingWhat: KLCC Staff will meet with area listeners to learn more about the Corvallis community. KLCC Staff visits Springfield 2-17-17KLCC Celebrates 50 years with a series of visits to our outlying communities. At the time, Kesey, the Pranksters and The Bus had just come back from their cross-country hegira; Wolfe had written the pieces for New York magazine that eventually became his bestselling book; Kesey was orchestrating the Acid Test concert/psychedelic experiences and the house band was the budding Grateful Dead (formerly the Warlocks) featuring a half Irish, half Spanish banjo/guitar whiz named Jerry Garcia. Its a place for people to get together and still be able to connect with Jerry. "Girls didn't have as much personal freedom as boys did," she remembers. "I had a little "spill,' " she laughs, "and got really high. Then came the Summer of Love. Kesey was just down the road, but to Mountain Girl he still felt miles away. He was clean out of necessity. The concert had been meant to revive the spirit of a generation. Any sign of a trap and I'm moving. ", But as much as the Chief held the power in the Pranksters' fold, Mountain Girl maintained her own. And perhaps the Prankster thing had gotten a little stale for her at that point.". By clicking Sign up, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider It had been only two years since she'd met Kesey and taken up with the Pranksters, but it felt like a lifetime. "I'm standing there, it's like 6 in the morning," she recalls. We cleaned our grass in an old aluminum colander, and stored the kilo of Acapulco gold in a kitchen cupboard. I want to carry a knife! "I'm not weeping with remorse.". I fear she did most of the adapting.". 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. Thats what motivates me to continue to do licensing, Jerry Garcias daughter Trixie reflects, as she discusses her familys recent business ventures. She never taught me any rules and benched me forever." "They were a couple. "He'd fill it with music, drugs, girlfriends, whatever. But they were reluctant to tell Mountain Girl, lest they hurt her. They helped organize the Altamont festival, a sort of "Woodstock West." "We were delighted. She'd also just lost her job, and was going broke. Since coming back to the States, he'd been embroiled in legal battles over his marijuana charges. "I ran home to mother for the first time in my life," she says. Because Jerry and I honorably tried to do a deal that covered everything, that made me happy. It takes a monumental person to be with them.". I look at it another way as well. Complete independence. ", One day, when she was up in San Francisco, her attorney got a call. Jerry didn't really do a lot of maintenance. Tibetan monks sang in strange, low tones. "I haven't had another relationship really since then. She was living near Stanford, hired by then-department head Carl Djerassi to work the night shift at the mass spectrometer in the university's organic chemistry lab. It seems like a logical fit. But the event ended in tragedy when a member of the Hells Angels, the notorious biker gang who were hired to provide security, stabbed a concertgoer to death at the foot of the stage. I just had to go with it. She sampled ibogaine, a powerful psychoactive being studied by the researchers she worked with. Lihat Semua Hasil . And then one day, he just kind of up and left. "You might say I was in denial," she says. And these were Cocaine Katies? The mist was coming through the trees, and Adams made out a large vehicle in the distance, painted like a kaleidoscope. She also says that she started putting on weight "out of self-defense. Those two are the biggest people in every way - big souls, big hearts, big egos, big personalities. "The Haight-Ashbury era," as Tom Wolfe later wrote, "began that weekend.". Mountain Girl (Carolyn Elizabeth Garcia) with her three daughters, Sunshine Kesey,(daughter of Ken Kesey), Theresa Adams "Trixie" Garcia, Annabelle Walker Garcia. Show your support for only $2/month, Carlos Santana Plots 1001 Rainbows North American Tour, Reaching New Heights: SunSquabis Kevin Donohue Talks Arise, New Music and Debuting it Live, Earl Scruggs Music Festival Drops Artist Lineup: Emmylou Harris, Greensky Bluegrass, Infamous Stringdusters and More, Listen: Relix Releases The Relix Sessions with Soule Monde on Digital Platforms, Beale Street Music Festival Delivers Lineup: Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, Gary Clark Jr., The Roots and More, Watch Now: Portugal. Jerry, I think, fits the Alfred picture as a kind of verbally interesting person, rather than the swashbuckler Kesey was. Carolyn Adams heard Jerry Garcia before she saw him. She took them East. But his antic exit was no joke to the broke, homeless, pregnant teenager he had unceremoniously left behind. Things weren't supposed to work out this way. "Ooh, man," she told him, "there's something. For a long time, Mountain Girl clung to her anonymity. 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. 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. One must brace against the turns to avoid sliding into the driver. Weve met lots of people and toured lots of different places, and thought about many different ways to structure this. 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. "Hitchhiked up I-5, pregnant with no money whatsoever, begging cups of coffee off of people." "Well," he replied, "you must be Mountain Girl. Im so stoked that we found professionals who were already successful in other markets. But to her, it didn't feel like the same party anymore. "I never did any therapy about it, but I've read all the books.". Sometimes the fanaticism is a little too extreme, and gets in the way. I think that two people hiding out in the same family would have been even more difficult. 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. ", "School," writes Garcia in the beginnings of what may become her memoirs, "was an inner battleground. A A. But she didn't have the money for another one, and she was almost entirely reliant on Kesey, who wanted her to keep the child. All Carolyn Garcia ever wanted was a family with her children and Jerry Garcia. "It wasn't (about) any one person," she says. If you were behaving badly, she'd tell you that, too. "That's the coolest thing I ever saw. (Kesey had been a participant in 1959). Along with the stories she told me over hours of interviews, it's a monumental lost chapter of American literature a funny, vivid, heartbreaking account of an indelible time and place, as told by the woman at the center of the wildness. "I went down for a long time." But she wasn't looking for another man to step in. Its nice to lose yourself in a piece of art. "I always get emotional about the old bus. "I cry when I see the bus now, are you kidding?" He played to her all night. And more and more people were getting admitted to the hospital from bad drug reactions. The legend crumbled. Mountain Girl, Sunshine Kesey, Trixie Garcia, and Annabelle Garcia #Garcia75th : Jay Blakesberg Photography I couldn't understand why I was born a girl. "I was totally devastated," says Carolyn, now 76. ", But, laughs Scully, "Nobody ever saw her and Jerry because they never came out of their room. "She never defined it as shit. His smile looms like a half moon that spins along with us through the trees. I absolutely love sativasI like getting stoned and then doing gardening work and stuff like that. She hallucinated "pyramids and parrots and lush jungle vegetation," she says. The. He's not going to come back. I was flabbergasted. Now, after keeping her writings in a box for years, she had decided to share her memoir with me. So I never really knew where she stood on anything. State. When they returned, Jerry's heroin use was getting so extreme even Mountain Girl was noticing it. I made a few phone calls and everybody said the same thing: "I don't know. It's sad to see it crumble away. Kesey dug how she spoke her mind, made him laugh, and dazzled him with beauty. But they wanted to do something to make things better, to restore new life to the countercultural movement to which they had helped give birth. Either you were with Kesey or not with Kesey. Meals got planned; bathrooms were cleaned. Attractive in every possible way. Theres a simplicity with the no-nonsense, real-deal, getto-the-good-music feel of the space. "Of course, I was totally in denial about this. His new book is "Easy to Learn, Difficult to Master: Pong, Atari, and the Dawn of the Video Game.". No money, hardly any clothes, and no real concept of what was coming. It was like permission to make something new out of the old stuff, which the bus kind of represented. The Sunshine Kesey Interview - YouTube 0:00 / 3:57 The Sunshine Kesey Interview Jake Feinberg Show 2.14K subscribers Subscribe 15 646 views 1 year ago Natural Expression by Sunshine Kesey. Kesey wasn't dead. "He was not happy to see me," she says. It's still owned by Sunshine and the Kesey family. Were trying to live up to a set of ideals and work with folks who understand what Jerry means to people. ", "Jerry was extremely jealous," says Goldie Rush, who met the Garcias, as she puts it, "in a child care situation," and has continued to be a business manager and accountant for a number of people associated with the Dead's extended family. In exchange for the cash, she gave up claim to the fruits of his talent, his real estate holdings and any future earnings. He loved to work. And then there was a former Philadelphia assistant district attorney who drove West, determined to "move in with Jerry.". Initially. "I had disempowered myself by joining this group," she says. Having it be so intimate and humble is totally cool. She moved to Europe with a boyfriend for a year but wrote to Garcia. "Just about nothing. "I didn't know what to do. He had dumped all of his belongings in the Garcia driveway, including a box with a cat in it. She was very bright, very fast. They wrote their one-paragraph separation agreement and went separate ways. ", The trial was "an unexpected development," she says, as she sits in her rural kitchen. He had been in a coma. Eight months pregnant, Mountain Girl stepped off the Dead's helicopter at Altamont just in time to see Mick Jagger get punched in the head by a concertgoer. "I'll break you this time. My relationship with him had to do more with intellectual companionship rather than a physical relationship, which was really brief. He put the mojo on me. It was a tremendously exhilarating, positive experience about relating to everything around you. For an arduous month in December 1996 and part of January 1997, Carolyn Garcia was living on the Bolinas Lagoon at Stinson Beach with her old friend Caroline "Goldie" Rush and commuting to the Marin County Court House in San Rafael. ", "I'm not sure he "got her away' from Kesey," says Sue Swanson, who calls herself "the Grateful Dead's first official fan" and who runs the Dead's merchandising office in Novato. And none of the Pranksters embodied that emerging spirit more than Mountain Girl. She named her baby girl Sunshine Kesey. She has won awards from Oregon Associated Press, PRNDI, and Education Writers Association. She was fired for dipping into the experimental psychedelic chemicals she was analyzing. After a trial noted for the animosity between the two warring sides and full disclosure of the Garcias' private life and Jerry Garcia's assets - the very things he wished to avoid - the judge decided in Carolyn Garcia's favor. We partnered with Keen to do a line of shoes, and they have been supporting HeadCount through the Vote Love campaign, which is a get-out-the-vote campaign that were also working on. Her eyes well with tears. So we found some awesome partners. "He just disappeared. 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