Magic Trip: Ken Kesey’s Search for a Kool Place

DdC · 09-04-2011, 02:21 PM

So Much Fabulousness Along the Way
Hippie elder and counter-cultural icon Carolyn Elizabeth Garcia (a.k.a Mountain Girl) fondly reminisces about the early days of the psychedelic movement and time spent with Ken Kesey and The Grateful Dead in this CC interview.

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Quote:

To be just without being mad (and the madder you get the madder you get), to be peaceful without being stupid, to be interested without being compulsive, to be happy without being hysterical.... smoke grass.
~ Ken Kesey
Friday, August 22 2008

The Magic Bus "Furthur"

Magic Trip: Ken Kesey’s Search for a Kool Place
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Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood’s MAGIC TRIP

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Timothy Leary and Neal Cassady on the bus.

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