Instead, she entered into an affair with Ken Kesey, the famed novelist and leader of the Pranksters, with whom she eventually had a daughter. 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. Compared to what the fans know and want to cultivate, Im no expert. Carolyn Elizabeth Garcia (ne Adams; born May 7, 1946), also known as Mountain Girl, is an American Merry Prankster and the former wife of Jerry Garcia, the lead vocalist and guitar player with the American rock band, Grateful Dead. There wasn't a whole lot I could do to go chasing around worrying to see what had happened to Jerry. KLCC General Manager, News Director and other KLCC Staff met with Springfield listeners and dignitaries.KLCC Staff on their way to Newport!Destination #2: NewportWhen: Friday, 4/21/17, 4-6 pmWhere: Newport Performing Arts CenterWhat: KLCC Staff will meet with area listeners to learn more about the Newport community. We did the best we could. They had not lived together for years, although once in a while they got together with the children during a holiday or when the Dead were in town playing a concert. But now that she'd fallen in love with Garcia, Kesey seemed to realize what he'd lost. She was caught napping each time. 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. I was locked in. I still enjoy making art as part of my range of hobbies and skills. Jerry Garcia But much of that time, Jerry was on tour. She was born on February 2, 1970 Annabelle is a member of the Garcia Family LLC, of which she has been active from 2009 to date, and the company's goal is to do the best for Annabelle's father's music and visions.She has an older half-sister by the name of Sunshine Kesey, who was born in 1966 Annabelle Garcia's family, husband and children "The band got to be very big and very much the nexus and focus of hundreds and thousands of people. "God knows what Jerry was doing when they were out on the road," she says. "[4] Journalist Tom Wolfe described his first impression of a teenage Adams as "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 paintbrush dipped in cadmium yellow from where she dyed it blond in Mexico. We tried to keep the mess to a minimum. It would prove to be a pivotal moment in the history of the counterculture. 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 . ", She's still a psychedelic priestess, though she's down to shrooming twice a year. I didn't know how to ask for help. "I was like, 'Whoa, that was a really electric moment!'" "It seemed the only safe place," she recalls. (October 15, 1998). Tiffany Eckert 12 of 15 The Simpsons family are from Springfield, Oregon Matt Groening 13 of 15 Joy and excitement; uncertainty and pain. 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. There were people everywhere looking for anything, looking for a place to lie down. Mountain Girl had seen the Dead in its earlier incarnations, but she didn't take special note of Jerry. Carolyn "Mountain Girl" Garcia, former wife of late Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia, and her daughter with late author Ken Kesey, Sunshine Kesey, recent. Surrounded by towering redwoods, the place seemed to be recovering from an epic bender: cars and motorcycles everywhere, the ground littered with assorted detritus. It's a piece of my childhood. The middle is a lousy place to sit. Tracks Listen Buy How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) Stop That Train "It was written all over his face. Also, at the end of the day, the whole world is a mystery. "I just said, 'I have no idea he disappeared.' I just ran my life that way and it mostly worked out.". Tidak ada hasil . Everybody was attached to it.". by Petrus A. "It took the edge off me, to be carrying a kid," she says. By then, things at their Stinson Beach aerie, Sans Souci, on a ridge high above the beach, had gotten pretty weird. View All Result . "I was mortified," she says. ", But Mountain Girl and Jerry remained intertwined through it all. They were a team. That was the world. So too, she thought, were Kesey and the Pranksters. As the Dead began putting out records and touring, Mountain Girl, who had a child to raise, began feeling the strain. The bus is rusted and broken down. The fight over his intellectual and real property continues. But God, if somebody didn't cook, do you know what they would eat? She gave birth in the charity ward of a Mexican hospital in May 1966. Moan Desolation Row Looks Like Rain The Winners Victim Or The Crime Wasserman Bass Improvisation No. "There were a lot of them around," she says. [1] She attended Franklin Delano Roosevelt High School in Hyde Park. It was really hard and frightening for her. That was home for me, I made that abundantly clear." [5] Kesey was arrested for marijuana possession in La Honda, in 1965 and fled to Mexico. The Bus had been abandoned in a muddy, mossy swale behind the Kesey compound for three years. ", Garcia knew that as Jerry's wife and mother of two of his children, she was entitled to half of his estate under California law. I jumped in to make a few dinners and keep the pantry stocked. "He was very connected in the world of literature and we were constantly being visited by graduate students or writers or people doing interviews. She arrived in California, like many at the time, eager to bloom. 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. She studied journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia and has worked in a variety of media including television and daily print news. I wanted to get it right. But basically, she was assigned to the traditional women's stuff of keeping a home, albeit a very large and unruly one. 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. 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. It's got little mottos written all over it." His smile looms like a half moon that spins along with us through the trees. "I'm the illegitimate love . Carolyn Garcia's monthly payments, at this point, are still suspended. "My heart opened," she says. Through our Discourse journalism, Insider seeks to explore and illuminate the days most fascinating issues and ideas. He left a third of his estate to his wife of three months, Deborah Koons Garcia, but had a herd of creditors in his wake (including Mountain Girl) and the value of his estate in dispute. "But Ken by that time was also aging, not too gracefully, and I don't drink. Jerry and I were head over heels in love, and radiant with happiness. Tags Arts & Culture Springfield ken kesey Sunshine Kesey Road Trip Tiffany Eckert Tiffany joined the KLCC News team in 2007. 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. 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. ", But she "wasn't happy about the (female stuff). It was warm," she recalls. Getting on it was a liberating feeling. I never socialized with the fan base or anything like that. In October 1966, with her visa up, she rode back to San Francisco with her baby and the Pranksters. "She didn't move into another woman's house," says Tangerine. It would have been like a ballplayer missing a game. Two years later, she got the dreaded call: Garcia had died of a heart attack at a drug-treatment facility. And boy, do I run from that stuff. She had finally gotten a divorce from George Walker who, she said, "was living on a sailboat in Samoa." Sunshine Kesey sits with her Grandmother, Geneva Jolley. Kesey dubbed them the Acid Tests. Our writers provide thought-provoking perspectives, informed by analysis, reporting, and expertise. But facing the judge, she was sharp enough to know who they were really after: Kesey. So youve gotta stay grounded, stay humble, be realistic. I wanted to sidestep that rock star wife thing as much as possible. I want to be a pioneer!" Her eyes well with tears. The family moved from house to house (Annabelle Garcia says that she went to no less than 13 schools, "just like an Army brat" ). 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. "Crazy," she recalls. ", Any hopes she had of a joyful reunion were dashed the moment they found Kesey. Things weren't supposed to work out this way. I decided not to do much. For KLCC, Tiffany reports on health care, social justice and local/regional news. Other Pranksters went back and forth to America, but without money or means Mountain Girl felt trapped in Mexico. But unbeknownst to the guys, she was taking notes. I mean, yuck! She tried to get in the door but a tree had grown up and blocked her passage. "You could come stay with me," he said. The tiny kitchen downstairs was the crossroads, we jammed in there for morning cornflakes and conversation. "She's imposing all right," says David Gans, the proto-Deadhead historian who hosts "Dead to the World" on KPFA-FM radio. Two years later, she got the dreaded call: Garcia had died of a heart attack at a drug-treatment facility. (December 12, 1996). Jerry didn't really do a lot of maintenance. She sampled ibogaine, a powerful psychoactive being studied by the researchers she worked with. Both of them could be among the most open people I've ever run across.". In 1980, on New Year's Eve, they got married by a Buddhist monk backstage at a Dead concert. "It worked for me to have a different identity," she says. It was cozy enough, and I felt perfectly safe. It began in 1966 and extended nearly 28 years until the couple divorced in 1993. 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. She saw Joan Baez at Kepler's, a local bookstore, and started taking guitar lessons at Dana Morgan's Music Store. Sunshine Kesey and Annabel Garcia live nearby, not far from their mom. she recalls with a laugh. Palo Alto in the early 1960s was a dynamic crucible of the radical changes to come. Both felt the $5 million figure was fair, she said. Le concert de Grateful Dead dans l'Oregon en 1972 a sauv la laiterie de la famille Kesey et est devenu une lgende de la contre. Beatniks and folk musicians were flocking to the area, and Adams fell in love with the music scene. Pretty much all at once. At 710, Mountain Girl imposed order like a drill sergeant. I'm not a great anti-abortionist, but it never came up.". It's a bright, crisp morning on a leafy street in Eugene, Oregon. "Hitchhiked up I-5, pregnant with no money whatsoever, begging cups of coffee off of people." But, for me, its kind of like a meditative practice. After a harrowing experience nursing the baby while on acid "it magnifies the suction sensation to the maximum, like whoa!" Mountain Girl was equally defiant about their arrest. "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. Kesey wasn't dead. Meanwhile, Jerry would wander in and out of her life. Mountain Girl had to "marry" her fellow Prankster George Walker to get the birth certificate. They ran a bar 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.". But I went for it. (Kesey had been a participant in 1959). If you were behaving badly, she'd tell you that, too. "Yes," admits Carolyn Garcia. I had three old couch pillows and my sleeping bag, with a tarp tacked up overhead for the few rain or fog drips that penetrated the treetops. ", At the same time, she says, "it was joyous.". Under the isolation and pressures of the road, he slipped into cocaine and heroin addiction. Were proud of them and we want to share the best of what California has to offer. For a long time, Mountain Girl clung to her anonymity. I was flabbergasted. 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. Daydreaming took me out the windows and into fresh, limitless landscapes and away from that tension of never quite fitting in, of the feeling of being odd and too smart.". What she didn't realize, until Neal had peeled off the road and started driving the wrong way down a railroad track, was that he was none other than Neal Cassady, the inspiration for Jack Kerouac's 1967 Beat classic "On the Road.". Meanwhile, Mountain Girl took her three girls to Oregon. Read more Discourse stories here. 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. Thats what motivates me to continue to do licensing, Jerry Garcias daughter Trixie reflects, as she discusses her familys recent business ventures. Le yaourt gratuit n'a pas dur longtemps.Chuck et Sue Kesey s'attendaient ce qu'environ 5. Three others died at Altamont that day, including a fan who took too much LSD and drowned in an irrigation ditch. "I cry when I see the bus now, are you kidding?" Jerry was married with a daughter of his own, but they had moved back to Palo Alto without him. "Nobody can measure up," Mountain Girl says of Jerry. Adams, who had been a bus monitor in elementary school, had a soft spot for the rides, especially a vintage 1939 International Harvester like this one. It seems like theres often a charitable component. "I always get emotional about the old bus. I would question every single thing. "I'm so glad to see you!" In those days, Mountain Girl was the brash, 19-year-old "it girl" of the nascent psychedelic underground. I did try to run their sound board for a while, but I wasn't good at it. 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. "He went with it," she says, "and made sure that I had a place to sleep and food to eat. "You could tell the number of people was way exceeding the ability of anybody to deal with it." Doyle, Jim. God, I was so thrilled. ", It was August 31, 1965, and everyone piled into Furthur, the painted school bus that would soon become one of the most renowned icons of the Sixties. Deborah Koons Garcia declined to be interviewed for this story, but in a written statement, she said "we did not want this case to go to trial, but we have a duty to protect the Estate," adding that the "alleged agreement was for an amount which exceeded Jerry's net worth at the time, which was clearly unfair.". So I never really knew where she stood on anything. He faked a suicide and split for Mexico, basically leaving a pregnant 18-year-old - Mountain Girl - behind him. It takes a monumental person to be with them.". Adams was "willowy, with long, black hair, a bright smile and sharp mind," as Prankster Ken Babbs describes her in his new memoir. All of Jerrys kids are artists in one way or another. Six months later, Garcia had some dental work and got involved with pain relievers. You can't do drugs when you're in a coma.". The gray-haired woman, who bears a striking resemblance to Jerry, is his 45-year-old daughter, Trixie. The paint is faded. And then this sort of unusual set of circumstances occurred whereby Jerry " Her conversation tails off into an uncomfortable silence. The loss of his father was absolutely devastating for him as a little boy. 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. ", But at La Honda and in other communities around the country, a new movement was taking place. Certainly, for my own peace of mind, I cant work with anyone who thinks my dad was a deity or something. 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. Please enjoy this full-length feature from our October/November Issue. Evangeline Gomorrah Let It Rock That Lucky Old Sun Tangled Up In Blue I'll Take A Melody They Love Each Other Get Out Of My Life Woman Run For The Roses Stop That Train Mission In The Rain My Sisters And Brothers Deal The Harder They Come Waiting For A Miracle I Shall Be Released Think I Hope It Won't Be This Way, Always Don't Let Go Evangeline Sunshine Kesey, who grew up in the Garcia home, and Garcia's manager, Steve Parish, attended as well. 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. 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. He was losing me and Sunshine.". The joy started to end around 1974, when the Grateful Dead decided to take a break. ", Kesey was, she says, "attractive and very engaging. Ingram, Erik. Now 76, with shoulder-length gray hair and black-framed glasses, she's reading me an excerpt from her unpublished memoir, which she just dug out of an old brown box. I jumped in to make a few dinners and keep the pantry stocked. He never did respond well to pressure of any kind. "Girls didn't have as much personal freedom as boys did," she remembers. 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. "I went down for a long time." The fairy tale soured. She'd hitched a ride out west with her older brother, Don, determined to leave square old Poughkeepsie far in the rearview. [Laughs.] "They were talking about chord progressions and all this interesting stuff.". When she came to the one on the door that read "Nothing Lasts," she stopped in her tracks. "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. Now, after keeping her writings in a box for years, she had decided to share her memoir with me. 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. "Someone got us all tickets and we dressed up to go. 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. The father of Mountain Girl's baby was now a fugitive. 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. I think that two people hiding out in the same family would have been even more difficult. The whole vibe of the Capitol is amazing and authentic. We were there for 18 months. "Everybody was really depressed. I mean, there were no "scenes.' That is really something." Even as a teenager dedicated to "experimentation," as Carolyn now puts it, she was a fairly daunting personality. Her function? It was more than just hormones and the passion of new love that kept Mountain Girl and Jerry Garcia together. ", "I never met a woman with quite as much machismo as this girl had," marvels Scully. I was hallucinating. 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. Having it be so intimate and humble is totally cool. Adams soon lost her apartment and boyfriend as well. But there was one glaring problem. I think everybody had a crush on her.". "The intellectual challenges of being a part of my family were certainly evenly shared by everybody, regardless of sex. 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. She studied journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia and has worked in a variety of media including television and daily print news. "I had been taking birth-control pills, but then I ran out, and we were up there on the mountain, you know what I mean? I kind of nodded out. No Result . And now, The Bus was retired. It kept him very up. A Hells Angel, she later learned, had stabbed a gun-wielding concertgoer to death at the foot of the stage. 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. Instead, it brought the year and the decade to a dark and violent end. His eyes smiled. A 6-CD box set featuring two complete, previously unreleased performances from the Jerry Garcia Band and Bob Weir & Rob Wasserman recorded September 5th, 1989 in Hartford, CT and September 6th, 1989 in Uniondale, NY. The dealers were out there spreading bad, bad shit, telling them it was LSD, and it would be some nasty tranq from the nuthouse.". MG cherished the quiet moments with Jerry in their room, nursing Sunshine in bed as he noodled her favorite tune, "Viola Lee Blues," on his guitar. "She is the real deal.". "I'm standing there, it's like 6 in the morning," she recalls. The machine was down. ", Carolyn was born on May 6, 1946. "His whole thing was to drive to San Francisco, play a gig, go home, go to sleep, get up, have breakfast, drive to San Francisco, play a gig. ("I was taking just enough to get my job done," she says.) ", "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. "I was like, whoa, that was a really electric moment!" "There were always girls coming out of the woodwork," says Mountain Girl. Not a subscriber? They spent all the time in Jerry's room being in love. 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. Learn how and when to remove this template message, Mountain Girl: Her tale begins in Hyde Park, "Mountain Girl's heartbreaking memoir: An icon of the Sixties opens up about Jerry Garcia, Ken Kesey, and what the age of free love was really like", Women's Visionary Congress speaker biographies, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carolyn_Garcia&oldid=1135994138, This page was last edited on 28 January 2023, at 03:21. "I felt bad when it was taken down into the woods and abandoned. In her senior year of high school, she got expelled for sneaking into the boys locker room to see their new Nautilus machine. ", Jerry never said a word, said Mountain Girl. "Not just a little upset. Im so stoked that we found professionals who were already successful in other markets. "I would go over from time to time and hang out," she says. I should also point out that Im a huge cannabis fan. 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. People were just sleeping on the street in their shorts in the San Francisco fog, and getting terribly chilled. When she stepped off the bus holding Sunshine, she recognized a familiar face coming up to greet her. Sunshine Kesey, Self: Move Me Brightly: Celebrating Jerry Garcia's 70th Birthday. The seeds she'd helped sow were beginning to bloom. The Man Share Music Video for Dummy, Outline New LP, Joe Louis Walker: Scaling The Electric Fence. ", "Jerry had told me what he wanted me to do," says Jon McIntire. Bill is finally the right person for my mom. She and Garcia lived off his $50 a week in gig money. "[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. No matter how peeved you get with people, the bus always makes your heart jump. 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. It was meaningful to me because its a way for us to participate in the scene. Theres so much scrutiny and I just wanna enjoy it. "Oh, I came from up on the mountain there," she said. "I was devastated," she says. Then all of a sudden, the older guy's pulling these clippings out of his wallet and he's a Kerouac character. The acid tests were a series of psychedelic parties held in, KLCC's Tiffany Eckert sits down with Carolyn "Mountain Girl" Garcia and George "Hardly Visible" Walker to talk about their experiences as Merry Pranksters, A New Ken Kesey Mural to be Painted on the Odd Fellows Building in Springfield, Acid Test Anniversary Reunites Merry Pranksters In Eugene, Merry Pranksters Swap Stories; Extended Interview With Mountain Girl and George Walker. "I tried not to ask too many questions, because I know how it is. "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. ", It didn't help matters when Mountain Girl made an alarming discovery: She was pregnant. It's so sad.". How could you do that? Thats a whole thing that wasnt even acceptable in the fine art world like 20 years ago. (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. "We thought we had everything settled and that I was going to go up to Oregon and raise dahlias have some goldfish or something that would keep me happy. [11][12] She formerly served on the board of the Women's Visionary Council. "You know, we lost him out of our family. And none of the Pranksters embodied that emerging spirit more than Mountain Girl. A few of her friends acknowledge the incident as rumor but refuse to verify it as fact). Mom escaped. We tried to keep the mess to a minimum. It's the price the individual pays for the overall benefit of the planet. The quote from Trixie in Long Strange Trip about her "knowing not to . She was amazingly beautiful. 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. His pedal steel and a chair the only furniture. In exchange for the cash, she gave up claim to the fruits of his talent, his real estate holdings and any future earnings. I am also happy that we found companies that are privately owned and family run. The psychedelic culture the Pranksters had pioneered DayGlo paint, jam bands, LSD had a new name: hippie. 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. 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