I feel like we still have a relationship with the fans and are able to deliver things that delight and encourage more good vibes. "I was a strong suit," she says. 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. 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. Nobody can measure up. ", Her mother, a botanist and a school teacher, "abhorred gender classification," says Garcia. Six months later, Garcia had some dental work and got involved with pain relievers. But she felt as if he'd scored Kesey something else as well: this plucky 19-year-old from Poughkeepsie. For the two of them, says Scully, "it was a great big love.". "They pressured me to tell them where he was," she says. 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. Why, I take four or five to go to sleep!". The fight over his intellectual and real property continues. I was flabbergasted. Over the summer, she took a waitressing job and put college on hold. In her senior year of high school, she got expelled for sneaking into the boys locker room to see their new Nautilus machine. The mist was coming through the trees, and Adams made out a large vehicle in the distance, painted like a kaleidoscope. Any sign of a trap and I'm moving. They helped organize the Altamont festival, a sort of "Woodstock West." As most suspected, it was yet another prank. But there was a part of Jerry's and my relationship that was unshatterable by any means that's persisted until today. If you were stupid, she'd tell you so. "I wasn't a hundred percent Ken's girlfriend," she says. In early 1964, she met Neal Cassady, who introduced her to countercultural figure and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest author Ken Kesey. Sunshine Kesey and Annabel Garcia live nearby, not far from their mom. I was hallucinating. "I was mind-boggled and yet, there it was, happening inside my head." The group, she realized, "was his version of the nuthouse. The City of Springfield is installing a two-story, photorealistic painted mural of Ken Kesey downtown on the side of the Odd Fellows Building, current, Renowned author and Merry Prankster Ken Kesey grew up in Springfield. What the hell is going on? We are on this planet to live, not to die.". I am quite certain that it was a comfort to him as well as to me. Mountain Girl's girlfriends had an idea where he was - living with Deborah Koons, a filmmaker he'd met at a concert in New York in 1973 with whom he'd stayed in contact. To what extent do you currently explore your own creative expressions? He certainly had me buffaloed on the dishwashing thing. 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. (December 12, 1996). "He knew it was going to cause trouble." One thing that he did not want was any disclosure. 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 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. She arrived in California, like many at the time, eager to bloom. But to her, it didn't feel like the same party anymore. Had a quick mind - quick on the pickup with puns, jokes and comments. She eschewed the fashion pursuits of the time. Ken Kesey was in a lot of trouble in 1965 with the authorities in San Mateo for a marijuana bust. And now, The Bus was retired. Doyle, Jim. I didn't know what to do. "Not just a little upset. he says to me, looking out, holding out some grimy bennies in his palm. She also says that she started putting on weight "out of self-defense. The middle is a lousy place to sit. Surrounded by towering redwoods, the place seemed to be recovering from an epic bender: cars and motorcycles everywhere, the ground littered with assorted detritus. But now that she'd fallen in love with Garcia, Kesey seemed to realize what he'd lost. Jerry holds Sunshine Kesey as Mountain Girl looks on at the Heliport, the Grateful Dead's rehearsal space in Sausalito. At Jerry's funeral, Annabelle, his older daughter with Mountain Girl, said, "He was a great musician and a shitty father." "Everybody loved it that those guys were back together again," says Rush. The family moved from house to house (Annabelle Garcia says that she went to no less than 13 schools, "just like an Army brat" ). As Wolfe first described her, she was: "A tall girl, big and beautiful with dark brown hair falling down to her shoulders except that the lower two-thirds of her falling hair looks like a paint brush dipped in cadmium yellow from where she dyed it blond in Mexico.". Mountain Girl sued to get the money owned her. We are on a rock hurtling through space, and its all amazing. What is your perspective on how it has evolved? "They were a gang of brutes who beat up each other for fun," she says with a smile, "but they were nice to me. Ken (Kesey) could have made yard art out of it. "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. She named her baby girl Sunshine Kesey. It sounds like all of these endeavors require a balance between your free-spirited nature and a need to focus on business matters. She quickly joined the inner circle of Pranksters and became romantically involved with Kesey, having a daughter together named Sunshine. "She didn't move into another woman's house," says Tangerine. He stood there eyeing her up her long dark hair, her big bright smile the latest Alice to have fallen through the rabbit hole. Moan Desolation Row Looks Like Rain The Winners Victim Or The Crime Wasserman Bass Improvisation No. 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. Carolyn Adams heard Jerry Garcia before she saw him. Through her window she saw legions of young people with long hair and colorful pants, smoking, dancing, playing guitar. 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. The week after the Trips Festival, on January 31, 1966, Furthur was found abandoned on a cliffside road, high above the crashing shore of Eureka. She had finally gotten a divorce from George Walker who, she said, "was living on a sailboat in Samoa." And her first with a chauvinistic rock 'n' roll culture that relegated the band's "old ladies" to caretaker status. "I'm so glad to see you!" "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. But facing the judge, she was sharp enough to know who they were really after: Kesey. Sunshine Kesey, Self: Move Me Brightly: Celebrating Jerry Garcia's 70th Birthday. They rebooted their commune around him, reassuming their established roles. Her function? A beautiful woman. Theres a simplicity with the no-nonsense, real-deal, getto-the-good-music feel of the space. ", One day, when she was up in San Francisco, her attorney got a call. He played to her all night. Top editors give you the stories you want delivered right to your inbox each weekday. He did not want to share that information or even have to dig into all that information. 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. Initially. ", She addressed it head-on. She never taught me any rules and benched me forever." 1 They ran a bar in San Francisco. ", "Don't kid yourself," says Jon McIntire. Kesey didn't show up, even after the birth. But when choosing partners, products and people that are gonna go out there and represent Jerry, its important to pick the right people. ", "I never spoke with her about any of it until after the fact," said Sue Swanson. In a loosely autobiographical screenplay he wrote called "Over the Border," he rhapsodizes about "her big brown eyes made even bigger by the electricity of the warm autumn night with the stars above and her man beside her. "I wanted to stay with my Prankster buddies. It was such a special thing," she says. 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. 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. A few days later, Adams rode her white Honda 50 back to La Honda for Kesey's party, where she accepted his holy sacrament: LSD. Tiffany Eckert 12 of 15 The Simpsons family are from Springfield, Oregon Matt Groening 13 of 15 ", Flush with cash, she bought a white Honda 50 scooter and took to riding up and down the coast. Instead, he decided to hide it. He stole her white Alfa Romeo and drove it into a ditch; he papered the town of Stinson Beach with bad checks and told people that she would pay his bills and he let the air out of the tires of her VW van. 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. ", Still facing pot charges in San Francisco, she had to hitchhike up and down the coast for her court appearances, five hours each way. Three others died at Altamont that day, including a fan who took too much LSD and drowned in an irrigation ditch. So I never really knew where she stood on anything. Their pad had become a hub for the burgeoning scene around the Dead's extended family of dealers and musicians and psychedelic poster artists. His pedal steel and a chair the only furniture. I had a new baby. Jerry Garcia exclaimed. I think everybody had a crush on her.". For MG, which is how her intimates shorten her name, the Pranksters were her college, the University of Fun. It seems like a logical fit. With bright blue eyes, blond curly hair, and a wrestler's build, the famous young novelist glowed with authority and mischief. Sunshine Kesey is known for Move Me Brightly: Celebrating Jerry Garcia's 70th Birthday (2013). "It was awful," Mountain Girl says. Mom escaped. They produced two daughters. Jerry is dead. Often, it was very difficult. They were a team. She affected black turtlenecked sweaters and carried books of poetry. "And I was like, 'Oh, my God!' ", It was not difficult to get Mountain Girl away from Kesey, says McIntire. But being pregnant changed her outlook on life. Complete independence. 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. "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 recalls with a laugh. "The price is very high and the price is personal relationships and time away from the family.". Mountain Girl, second wife of Jerry Garcia, holds her daughter, Sunshine, backstage at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. 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. 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Carolyn Mountain Girl Garcia, Sunshine Kesey, Trixie Garcia and Annabelle Garcia, I sincerely believe that the more people that we can expose to Jerrys playing and the kind of person that he was, the better we can make the world. I could go in there, but I didn't like it. State. I watched MG and Jerry connect. They would go and do these long, drawn-out scenes at the studio that would go on for weeks, where nobody slept and they'd stay up. Ive been trying to find a partner for five or six years. "I couldn't freak freely and stay up all night and run up and down the ladders," she says. The Mountain Girl-Jerry Garcia relationship was fraught with enough drama and see-sawing emotion to resemble a hippie soap opera. We cleaned our grass in an old aluminum colander, and stored the kilo of Acapulco gold in a kitchen cupboard. In exchange for the cash, she gave up claim to the fruits of his talent, his real estate holdings and any future earnings. Both felt the $5 million figure was fair, she said. Read more Discourse stories here. "I didn't want any whinging. We were very, very happy with each other. Koons Garcia and Weir took a portion of Garcia's ashes to India two weeks ago and spread them . "Marijuana is an ancient plant, cultivated for centuries all over the world for rope & papermaking, for its oil, resin, & seeds," she writes in her memoir. Transferred from the original analog reels and fastidiously mastered for release, these recordings exhibit some minor lapses in fidelity which can be expected due to age and circumstance. I absolutely love sativasI like getting stoned and then doing gardening work and stuff like that. 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. "She didn't say anything of any note except to acknowledge my presence. "Old-time farmers used manure, compost, bird shit, etc. Jerry, I think, fits the Alfred picture as a kind of verbally interesting person, rather than the swashbuckler Kesey was. I was just on board to do whatever.". Browse 85 sunshine kesey stock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. that was it for him. She was judge and jury in those days. Over the years it became a bustling hub for friends and family, including Mountain Girl, who moved nearby in the 1980s. The moment she hugged him, she felt a flash. That was home for me, I made that abundantly clear." "Leaper?" ", She and Kesey were "mutually attracted." Once again, Carolyn took her children away to Oregon, to a newly purchased patch of verdant acreage in the Willamette Valley. The police advised Mountain Girl that there was not much she could do about him because he had established some sort of homestead on her property. ", But, laughs Scully, "Nobody ever saw her and Jerry because they never came out of their room. ", "MG put up with a lot of shit for a lot of years," says Goldie Rush. "You could come stay with me," he said. [Laughs.]. When it appeared that he would survive, she and the girls moved in with him in San Rafael and for six months, she had the family life she had always wanted. Once you've had a little kid, it's very difficult to focus on being a P.A. 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. Caravans of Deadheads turned Jerry and Mountain Girl into godheads. ", Cassady's car actually belonged to Kesey, who was living with his Prankster band up at La Honda in the Santa Cruz Mountains. The Days Between is obviously based off a song, and the fans took it over after Jerry died. Certainly, for my own peace of mind, I cant work with anyone who thinks my dad was a deity or something. He was a pro. From the Merry Pranksters to the Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia's widow opens up about what the age of free love was really like. Jerry had that fortune or misfortune, that when he falls, he falls hard." It's sad to see it crumble away. "I was maintaining our home. Carolyn Garcia's monthly payments, at this point, are still suspended. "Well," he replied, "you must be Mountain Girl. What other considerations are important to you when selecting a partner? Occasionally, her voice could be heard floating the sound actually moving through the hall with a loving and humorous commentary on some piece of the action." Kesey dug how she spoke her mind, made him laugh, and dazzled him with beauty. "I would go over from time to time and hang out," she says. But from then on, Mountain Girl and Captain Trips were a pair. In the course of a few months, some 100,000 young people from all over the world descended on Haight-Ashbury to get high and make love and protest the war. It's not a thing anybody owns or controls. It was a toxic environment. "He'd fill it with music, drugs, girlfriends, whatever. "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 episodes like these, coupled with Jerry's inconstancy with other women, that precipitated her escape to Oregon, the place where Kesey, Faye, their children, Ken Babbs and a bunch of her Prankster family had settled. And that level of his dedication really fired everybody. A long, strange trip led Mountain Girl to Kesey's final home. Mountain Girl walked around it, peering in the windows. "Neal basically dropped me off there like fresh meat or something," she says. "You might say I was in denial," she says. She spent every minute she could out of doors, exploring the local terrain and, she writes, "imagining myself running long distance over the old Mohawk trail or hunting deer or making the clothes and foods of the Indians." "Crazy," she recalls. I decided not to do much. "I always get emotional about the old bus. He had been in a coma. But Mountain Girl had been around long enough to know that, in the words painted on the Pranksters' bus, Nothing Lasts. And she wanted to help that greatness.". "She's imposing all right," says David Gans, the proto-Deadhead historian who hosts "Dead to the World" on KPFA-FM radio. 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. Because Jerry and I honorably tried to do a deal that covered everything, that made me happy. Instead, it brought the year and the decade to a dark and violent end. You mentioned your mom [Carolyn Mountain Girl Garcia, one of the original Merry Pranksters]. I made a few phone calls and everybody said the same thing: "I don't know. 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. A Hells Angel, she later learned, had stabbed a gun-wielding concertgoer to death at the foot of the stage. By the time she returned, her confidence was at an all-time high.She had had an opportunity to develop her own talents, including a gift for writing, in a brief sojourn at an eastern college. She was, she recalls, "a beatnik." The seeds she'd helped sow were beginning to bloom. She was fired for dipping into the experimental psychedelic chemicals she was analyzing. "I was totally devastated," she says. We want to work with folks who bring a very high level of quality and integrity.. [2] Shortly after she was expelled from high school, she traveled to Palo Alto, California in 1963 with her older brother, Don. Kesey was just down the road, but to Mountain Girl he still felt miles away. I want to carry a knife! 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. ", It didn't help matters when Mountain Girl made an alarming discovery: She was pregnant. Theyre like musicians; they just need assistance. I rebelled against the Grateful Dead as a teenager. ", She's still a psychedelic priestess, though she's down to shrooming twice a year. That was my big goal as a child. I walked over to look, amazed. How could you do that? "She is the real deal.". His new book is "Easy to Learn, Difficult to Master: Pong, Atari, and the Dawn of the Video Game.". His life as a fugitive seemed to be taking a toll on him, along with his seemingly unlimited intake of speed. Faye, Kesey's wife and the mother of their three young children, barely talked to her. ", The trial was "an unexpected development," she says, as she sits in her rural kitchen. "We felt guilty at having called for this." "He was kind of a wreck. 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. So Garcias Hand Picked means that we are actually in there tasting and trying these products. I think its important for people to have an alternative to alcohol, an alternative to opiates. I love making art but I dont anticipate making art shows or anything like that happen. Their house was a living lab, a repository of bugs and plants. Jerry Garcia Jerry and Carolyn were married by a Jewish friend who was also a Tibetan monk in a ceremony missed by most of the band members. Dean Budnick on December 2, 2020 Carolyn "Mountain Girl" Garcia, Sunshine Kesey, Trixie Garcia and Annabelle Garcia "I sincerely believe that the more people that we can expose to Jerry's. "I could play with that.". "There was something that needed to be done and when you got all these people together, it was suddenly possible to do it. Tiffany joined the KLCC News team in 2007. The riotous paint job was murky and peeling, as if the bus had leprosy. Although Garcia and Adams reconciled after the dissolution of his relationship with Koons in 1977, they stopped cohabiting a year later (save for occasional holiday reunions) due to the guitarist's heroin and cocaine addictions. "I was mortified," she says. "Now what will that do?" For Carolyn Adams, it was her second brush with genius. "When you're in a car driving across the plains of Kansas from one gig to the next and you're lucky enough to be in the same car with Jerry and MG, the details they would notice about everything, the joy they would take in life, would sweep you along. She took command of the situation, telling them that they were now the only family she had. ", 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. It's a clear, cold afternoon in Pleasant Hill, Oregon, and Mountain Girl, dressed in a black parka and jeans, is sharing a joint with her three grown daughters. But, she emphasizes, the gestalt of the Dead, that the whole was so much greater than the parts, kept her a believer. In those early days, she didn't take special note of Garcia. And then one day, he just kind of up and left. He was 53. "It worked for me to have a different identity," she says. "Someone got us all tickets and we dressed up to go. . I think I did a pretty good job. It was all over the newspapers, and it was a huge story, and we felt guilty at having called for this." Not at all. The loss of his father was absolutely devastating for him as a little boy.". "Nobody can measure up," Mountain Girl says of Jerry. 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 got a lot more happiness than anyone else in Grateful Dead Land.". 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. So we found some awesome partners. After. "That left a giant hole in his personality he was constantly trying to fill," she says. Please enjoy this full-length feature from our October/November Issue. "I was on the hunt for compatible people," says Garcia now. ", But Mountain Girl and Jerry remained intertwined through it all. she realized she needed to make a change. What needed to be done was to drive back the black and white and the separations between people and make a place where people could come together and have some joy and harmony without doctrine. Jerry was never with another woman who matched him as elegantly as she did, with her kind of energy and intelligence. I also have to plug her own parking-lot CBD brand, Mountain Girls Botanica. Sunshine Kesey is one of renown author and merry maker, Ken Kesey's, children. "The job was to run the mass spectrometer on the night shift," she writes in her memoir. [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. So not wanting to put dumb flourishes on his face or have Jerrys face on top of a pyramid or all these things that people have wanted to do. "Ooh, man," she told him, "there's something. "I was more than seven months pregnant and I didn't have shit. His eyes smiled. He returned to the United States and, just nights after being sentenced to six months in the San Mateo County Jail, he was arrested again, this time with Adams, while smoking marijuana on the rooftop of Stewart Brand's home on Telegraph Hill, San Francisco. I want to be a pioneer!" When the Summer of Love devolved into a plague of bad drug trips and homeless teenagers, Mountain Girl and Garcia set out to restore new life to the countercultural movement to which they had helped give birth. 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. ", The closer she grew to Jerry, the further she drifted from Kesey. Because for him, it was a living fluid.". At the police station, speaking with a reporter, Kesey suggested that he was being persecuted for his role in the counterculture. 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. He was clean out of necessity. Eventually, rejection by her peers got easier to handle. And boy, do I run from that stuff. "Neal basically dropped me off like fresh meat," she recalls. Jerry promised that they would get a house together. Ratburgers.". Snacks, beer, giveaways! Garcia was married with a daughter of his own, but his wife had moved back to Palo Alto without him. Shes @bluebelle42 on Instagram. ", Any hopes she had of a joyful reunion were dashed the moment they found Kesey. 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