A large mandala is painted on the living-room floor. Instead, she entered into an affair with Ken Kesey, the famed novelist and leader of the Pranksters, with whom she eventually had a daughter. We want to work with folks who bring a very high level of quality and integrity.. No money, hardly any clothes, and no real concept of what was coming. I think its important for people to have an alternative to alcohol, an alternative to opiates. 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? We are on a rock hurtling through space, and its all amazing. "Someone got us all tickets and we dressed up to go. "I always wanted to be a writer," she tells me with a sly smile. Since coming back to the States, he'd been embroiled in legal battles over his marijuana charges. And Mountain Girl wasn't sure how she felt about it. ULASAN. "I didn't know what to do. By the time Jerry Garcia met Carolyn Adams she was the iconic Mountain Girl - the outrageous, free-spirited teenaged Merry Prankster who captivated Tom Wolfe's imagination in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. That was his happiest space. That is really something." She was very bright, very fast. Mountain Girl, Sunshine Kesey, Trixie Garcia, and Annabelle Garcia #Garcia75th : Jay Blakesberg Photography Tiffany Eckert 10 of 15 The Kesey Clan surrounds Geneva Jolley Kesey Family 11 of 15 Springfield's Peter DeFazio at his Congressional Headquarters. After marrying "partly for tax purposes and partly out of a fond flickering of a once-bright romance"[8][1] in late 1981, this arrangement persisted until Garcia entered a diabetic coma in 1986. I know shes been working on her memoir. 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. But from then on, Mountain Girl and Captain Trips were a pair. I used to do large paintings but storage got to be an issue. The free concert, scheduled for December 6, 1969, would include performances by the Dead, Santana, Jefferson Airplane, and the Rolling Stones. Mountain Girl cherished the quiet moments with Garcia in their room, nursing Sunshine in bed as he noodled her favorite tune, "Viola Lee Blues," on his guitar. A natural athlete, Carolyn tried out for girls basketball but ran into trouble with her gym teacher who, she says, "was not my admirer. Kesey wasn't dead. When her boss found her slumped over her desk the next morning, he fired her. By then she was five months pregnant. 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. People were just sleeping on the street in their shorts in the San Francisco fog, and getting terribly chilled. That played itself out for a while. "We were trying to do an end run on the legal system and get the ball around to the other side of the court without having to engage a whole lot of people in the process. Mountain Girl and Jerry moved into an apartment of their own, and she got pregnant again. So that kind of separated me. "I could hear his voice and somebody else's voice," she tells me. No matter how peeved you get with people, the bus always makes your heart jump. She was pregnant by Kesey, 11 years her senior, who was married with kids. It was not to be. And none of the Pranksters embodied that emerging spirit more than Mountain Girl. she recalls with a laugh. "I was very upset," she recalls. I was locked in. The joy started to end around 1974, when the Grateful Dead decided to take a break. Kesey had just been sentenced to six months on a work farm for marijuana possession, and the Pranksters were two days away from staging their biggest Acid Test yet. Jerry and I were head over heels in love, and radiant with happiness. "That left a giant hole in his personality he was constantly trying to fill," she says. What the hell is going on? "Things changed," she says. Carolyn "went to war with her" and eventually, the gym teacher saw to it that she was expelled only six weeks before graduation. Rock Scully's girlfriend of the time, Valerie Ann Steinbrecher, who still is called "Tangerine," remembers watching Carolyn Adams and an unbearded Jerry Garcia literally fall in love on the spot: "The first time I saw Mountain Girl was at this gig at S.F. While she was fast approaching her due date, Kesey was off dealing with his lawyers. "It took the edge off me, to be carrying a kid," she says. "I was no longer in charge of my own destiny.". Trixie and her reclusive. "I was a total tomboy. Initially. Like Mountain Girl, he was looking for family. A beautiful woman. I look at it another way as well. mixer. When it comes to celebrity branding or whatever you want to call it, Paul Newman created a great model to work from in terms of contributing to charity. ", All along Garcia understood that she had elected to keep the home fires burning and give her genius husband plenty of "space. 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. With the best of intentions and the best of relationships, things can go terribly wrong. She studied journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia and has worked in a variety of media including television and daily print news. Mountain Girl gave Garcia enough latitude for him to play music, get involved with other women, and eventually, fall into the trap of what she calls "the white drugs" - cocaine and heroin. Destination #1: SpringfieldWhen: Friday, 2/17/17Where: Washburne Caf, Springfield, ORWhat: KLCC Staff rolled into Springfield in their mobile studio to meet the public and learn more about the community. She named her baby girl Sunshine Kesey. She was fired for dipping into the experimental psychedelic chemicals she was analyzing. In exchange for the cash, she gave up claim to the fruits of his talent, his real estate holdings and any future earnings. He had a very bright, engaging repartee going all the time, which I just loved. She affected black turtlenecked sweaters and carried books of poetry. Written in red paint, the front bumper proclaimed "CAUTION WEIRD LOAD. The guy teaching in the room next to her was a 21-year-old named Jerry Garcia. Jerry and Carolyn Garcia divorced in 1994[1] but remained friends until his death. I could go in there, but I didn't like it. 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. But facing the judge, she was sharp enough to know who they were really after: Kesey. And these were Cocaine Katies? 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. 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. Now, after keeping her writings in a box for years, she had decided to share her memoir with me. Two years later, she got the dreaded call: Garcia had died of a heart attack at a drug-treatment facility. Menu. There were daisies growing up through the floor boards. I watched MG and Jerry connect. 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. It was a minor note, although I suppose it wasn't minor for me at the time because I was young and attractive. The Man Share Music Video for Dummy, Outline New LP, Joe Louis Walker: Scaling The Electric Fence. "They pressured me to tell them where he was," she says. Sunshine was about two or three months old and she was in this little basket. 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. At times, as she puts it, it was a "horrible story" one that's much starker and scarier than suggested in Wolfe's book. But she turned down their offer to become a member. One thing that I wanted to do was fight against the stereotypes of the longhaired stoner and the dirty hippie. My very best friend is a high-functioning lawyer whos also a pot smoker. He was clean out of necessity. Were proud of them and we want to share the best of what California has to offer. "The job was to run the mass spectrometer on the night shift," she writes in her memoir. But I was anti-cocaine," she says pausing. Billed as the Trips Festival, the immersive, three-day event would draw more than 10,000 people to revel in the city's underground art scene, from light-show artists and experimental theater troupes to bands like the Dead, which gave its first major performance in San Francisco. 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.". "I always get emotional about the old bus. Through our Discourse journalism, Insider seeks to explore and illuminate the days most fascinating issues and ideas. She uttered a huge sigh. Theres a high level of quality and integrity there, which is so important when we think about licensing something. Its not necessarily great business talk, but my ability to detach is also crucial. None. ", And so Mountain Girl became a handmaiden to genius, a term she calls "horrible, but true." The fairy tale soured. Part of that was the elasticity of the relationship and how it could adapt to stuff. You know. But when the day arrived, the crowd of 300,000 grew increasingly unruly as the Hells Angels, who had been brought in to provide security, grew increasingly drunk. Other Pranksters went back and forth to America, but without money or means Mountain Girl felt trapped in Mexico. Its very small scale; its just a nod to her range of influence, and how many people idolize her. He loved to engage all sorts of people in all sorts of conversation and brief relationships. I should also point out that Im a huge cannabis fan. Meals got planned; bathrooms were cleaned. I absolutely love sativasI like getting stoned and then doing gardening work and stuff like that. When she stepped off the bus holding Sunshine, she recognized a familiar face coming up to greet her. Adams soon lost her apartment and boyfriend as well. !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. I'm not a great anti-abortionist, but it never came up.". You recently announced a partnership with Holistic Industries on Garcia Hand Picked. Getting into the cannabis industry was something I was determined to do. The engine had been cannibalized for parts for Furthur II, the "new bus" that Kesey was taking on what fellow Prankster Kenneth Babbs was calling the Grand Furthur Tour to the Rock and Roll Museum in Cleveland, Ohio. That was what was available, & it is still the best. Jerry was married with a daughter of his own, but they had moved back to Palo Alto without him. "He was aware of all this extra stuff going on in the music," she says, "which is one of the reasons it had so much power to move people. Getting on it was a liberating feeling. "I stayed up in Oregon much longer than I thought I should. ", David Kushneris a long-time contributor to Rolling Stone. My mom raised me, and she protected us from all of that by moving us to rural Oregon. It's a familiar story from a revelatory point of view: her own. Mountain Girl was equally defiant about their arrest. There was a Free Clinic for those who were sick, and a Free Store for those in need of basic necessities, and there was music everywhere. Retired Prankster Lee Quanstrom, a Santa Cruz-based journalist, has vivid memories of Mountain Girl. Someone had alerted the police that America's Most Wanted Acid Preacher was up on the roof getting high with a girl. The cleanliness of life which people around him discouraged pretty quickly. So yes, me and my sisters are working on getting those stories out of her tightly clenched fingers. Because for him it was a living fluid. Mountain Girl's bitterness, if she ever had any (and she denies that she ever did), probably dried up long ago. I don't know.' Weve met lots of people and toured lots of different places, and thought about many different ways to structure this. The Altamont festival, meant to be a sort of "Woodstock West," was organized in their apartment. She got a lot more happiness than anyone else in Grateful Dead Land.". ", "School," writes Garcia in the beginnings of what may become her memoirs, "was an inner battleground. We were there for 18 months. But unbeknownst to the guys, she was taking notes. I know they had a big love with one another. Mountain Girl believes he was still suffering from the trauma of seeing his father, Joe, drown on a fishing trip when he was 6. When she came to the one on the door that read "Nothing Lasts," she stopped in her tracks. One must brace against the turns to avoid sliding into the driver. Faye, Kesey's wife and the mother of their three young children, barely talked to her. 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. Three others died at Altamont that day, including a fan who took too much LSD and drowned in an irrigation ditch. "Ooh, man," she told him, "there's something. It's so sad.". "His glasses were broken and he had a couple of (bruises) where people might have punched him. Please enjoy this full-length feature from our October/November Issue. I was just on board to do whatever.". Jerry Garcia is just the latest celebrity to have his legacy immortalized in Colorado with a weed brand. Ken Kesey's ranch in La Honda, California, where Mountain Girl joined the Pranksters. The others quickly took note of this dynamic new girl in their midst. The first in a series of archive releases celebrating the run of Jerry Garcia shows on Broadway in Oct/Nov 1987. "Leaper?" "I accepted the position without really asking what it would be, because it was in a lab and I felt at home there. ", "If you're involved with somebody with a talent like Jerry's, the richness of his gift to everybody was so powerful, you have to give them a lot of latitude to express that gift," she says in retrospect. 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. They were moving around, and I go, 'Oh, isn't that cute?'" Everybody was attached to it.". His eyes smiled. Inside her plant-filled home lined with scientific books on psilocybin and posters of the Grateful Dead, Carolyn "Mountain Girl" Garcia, legendary godmother of the hippie counterculture, Jerry's ex-wife, and mother of their two daughters, sits on a red leather couch dressed in a red shirt and purple pants. !KLCC Staff at Sky High Brewing in Corvallis, PublishedFebruary 10, 2017 at 6:00 AM PST. The band is comprised of former members Bob Weir (guitar), Mickey Hart (drums) and Bill Kreutzmann (drums) and new additions John Mayer (guitar), Oteil Burbrdige (bass/drums) and Jeff Chimenti. The familys latest endeavor, in association with Holistic Industries, is the Garcia Hand Picked cannabis brand, which follows partnerships with Keen footwear and Tessemaes organic sauces. 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. She just gave Jerry a lot of slack. 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. "And then all of a sudden it was too much. The first time any of Kesey's literary mob ever saw Carolyn Adams, late of Hyde Park, N.Y., she was seated in a Palo Alto cafe, reading a book when Prankster and Beat icon Neal Cassady and a handsome young blond guy with a Beatle haircut named Bradley picked her up and invited her for a ride. She hallucinated "pyramids and parrots and lush jungle vegetation," she says. "I knew he could pay it and that he would get total control of his own business and that I wouldn't ever have to know anything about anything. She was still dropping acid before the shows, albeit in smaller doses. It's a bright, crisp morning on a leafy street in Eugene, Oregon. We also partnered with Tessemaes, which is an eco-conscious salad dressing company. Its a place for people to get together and still be able to connect with Jerry. His pedal steel and a chair the only furniture. In those days, Mountain Girl was the brash, 19-year-old "it girl" of the nascent psychedelic underground. Kesey dubbed them the Acid Tests. And more and more people were getting admitted to the hospital from bad drug reactions. I never socialized with the fan base or anything like that. Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go. The dealers were out there spreading bad, bad shit, telling them it was LSD, and it would be some nasty tranq from the nuthouse.". In her senior year of high school, she got expelled for sneaking into the boys locker room to see their new Nautilus machine. It had been only two years since she'd met Kesey and taken up with the Pranksters, but it felt like a lifetime. Kesey dug how she spoke her mind, made him laugh, and dazzled him with beauty. [2] Shortly after she was expelled from high school, she traveled to Palo Alto, California in 1963 with her older brother, Don. State. I want to carry a knife! You could feel it. While living together over the next decade, they raised Sunshine along with their two daughters. Not at all. Under the isolation and pressures of the road, Jerry slipped into cocaine and heroin addiction. another Prankster, Mike Hagen, asked her. In 1959, Kesey had been a volunteer in a C.I.A.-sponsored LSD experiment at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Menlo Park. 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. But Ive gotten more confident as far as using my creative impulses or intuition to help guide the look and feel of some of the brand licenses and products. "I was on the hunt for compatible people," says Garcia now. 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. The band, which was making waves in the Haight but hadn't yet recorded an album, shared a rambling Victorian on 710 Ashbury Street in San Francisco. 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'm the illegitimate love . Moan Desolation Row Looks Like Rain The Winners Victim Or The Crime Wasserman Bass Improvisation No. Meanwhile, Mountain Girl took her three girls to Oregon. So I faded out of that position. But she embraced it nonetheless. "I just couldn't deal with it," Mountain Girl says. The legend crumbled. "Where did you come from?" She took command of the situation, telling them that they were now the only family she had. But, says Gordon "Dass" Adams, Carolyn Garcia's oldest brother, "Jerry was a lousy husband.". Tiffany Eckert 12 of 15 The Simpsons family are from Springfield, Oregon Matt Groening 13 of 15 He could see the musical notes, he told her. They traveled as a couple, for instance, when the Dead went off to Egypt to play at the Pyramids in 1978. [9][10], Carolyn Garcia currently sits on the boards of the Rex Foundation and the Furthur Foundation, and is on the advisory board of the Marijuana Policy Project. "He'd fill it with music, drugs, girlfriends, whatever. ", "I never met a woman with quite as much machismo as this girl had," marvels Scully. I am also happy that we found companies that are privately owned and family run. "My heart opened," she says. Special thanks to: Trixie Garcia, Annabelle Garcia, Tiff Garcia, Heather Katz, Sunshine Kesey, Carolyn Adams Garcia, Keelin Garcia, Manasha Garcia, Coran Capshaw, Jonathan Blaufarb and Vivek Sridharan at Councel, LLP, Elliot Groffman, Paul Gutman, Ira Friedman and Kelly Corson at Carroll, Guido and Groffman, LLP, Mark Pinkus, Nicholas Meriwether, Jeffrey Norman, David Lemieux, Steve Parish . With an entomologist for a dad and a botanical illustrator for a mother, Adams had grown up a brainy bug-lover with a mind for science and a passion for nature. Then came the Summer of Love. Tracks Festival Fever K.C. "Ken was upset that I hooked up with Jerry," she says. So youve gotta stay grounded, stay humble, be realistic. Kesey seemed weary, a cruise director at the end of a long and tiring voyage. (Kesey had been a participant in 1959). (There is an apocryphal tale of Mountain Girl throwing Deborah Koons through a sliding glass door at Bob Weir's recording studio, which both women hotly deny both to the press and in private. "She is the real deal.". But when choosing partners, products and people that are gonna go out there and represent Jerry, its important to pick the right people. "Crazy," she recalls. ", The Pranksters, ever dutiful, came to his aid. So I have a degree in painting from there, although its not super helpful in a lot of the business stuff that Ive come into, like negotiating contracts with huge companies. The city recently commissioned a two-story, photo-realistic mural to honor their, This Halloween marks an auspicious occasion: the 50th anniversary of the Acid Test Graduation. The real story of Mountain Girl, as I've learned after months of talking to her, is far more complex. Mountain Girl and Garcia retreated to a secluded home in Stinson Beach, California, to raise their daughters. I'd really kind of like to stay out of that discussion because we're good friends and she's a very private person. He could see the musical notes, he told her. ", At the same time, she says, "it was joyous.". Suddenly, as Kesey and Mountain Girl were sharing the joint, they found themselves surrounded by a phalanx of cops. It was a complicated situation but there's one thing that anyone close to the couple agrees upon: It was a very big love. A A. Mom escaped. He was losing me and Sunshine.". The mist was coming through the trees, and Adams made out a large vehicle in the distance, painted like a kaleidoscope. The riotous paint job was murky and peeling, as if the bus had leprosy. Mountain Girl found the celebrated writer, who was 29, to be dynamic, intelligent, and playful. ", "Jerry and MG were absolutely a blessing to hang out around," says McIntire. "She had the ability to meld her energy with the energy of others to do more than what one person could do by themselves. For the two of them, says Scully, "it was a great big love.". At the police station, speaking with a reporter, Kesey suggested that he was being persecuted for his role in the counterculture. 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. 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. And then there was a former Philadelphia assistant district attorney who drove West, determined to "move in with Jerry.". He was living in a cheap motel in the beachfront town of Mazatln, conferring with his lawyer and looking jittery, skinny, and paranoid. She craved acceptance but couldn't seem to fit in. Kesey describes that first meeting with a literary allusion: "Vonnegut's phrase a "karass' comes to mind. I didn't know how to ask for help. "The intellectual challenges of being a part of my family were certainly evenly shared by everybody, regardless of sex. "You could come stay with me," he said. By clicking Sign up, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider But there was a part of Jerry's and my relationship that was unshatterable by any means that's persisted until today. Sunshine Kesey, daughter of Mountain Girl and Ken Kesey, also recalls Garcia as an extremely laid-back father figure during the years she and her mother lived with him. That was home for me, I made that abundantly clear." If Mountain Girl wanted to come, she better hitchhike down to LA fast, before they split. "Jerry decided to spend more time away from the house and in his studio. Before the lawyer finally disappeared, Mountain Girl shooed him off her front porch with a small child's broom, smacking him over the head. Mountain Girl had seen the Dead in its earlier incarnations, but she didn't take special note of Jerry. The whole vibe of the Capitol is amazing and authentic. 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