It was the honorable thing to do and it should be honored. Looking back on it, Adams realized that Cassady was handing her over to the Chief, along with the drugs. 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. 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. "The Haight-Ashbury era," as Tom Wolfe later wrote, "began that weekend.". I didn't know what to do. I made a few phone calls and everybody said the same thing: "I don't know. ", Still facing pot charges in San Francisco, she had to hitchhike up and down the coast for her court appearances, five hours each way. It's not a thing anybody owns or controls. His new book is "Easy to Learn, Difficult to Master: Pong, Atari, and the Dawn of the Video Game.". The court case turned into a high-profile free-for-all, with Koons Garcia's side claiming that Jerry had stopped loving Carolyn years before, that their marriage on New Year's Eve, 1981, was a sham and had been for tax purposes only and that in circumventing the legal system, their agreement was basically not worth the paper it was written on. That was home for me, I made that abundantly clear." ", "I never spoke with her about any of it until after the fact," said Sue Swanson. At Stanford University, researchers were exploring the potential of psychedelic drugs. Readers have been afforded plenty of accounts of riding shotgun with Cassady, but never from the perspective of a hitchhiking woman. ", Cassady's car actually belonged to Kesey, who was living with his Prankster band up at La Honda in the Santa Cruz Mountains. She just gave Jerry a lot of slack. There are a lot of people like that. "I went down for a long time." 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. "I could play with that.". . By the time she walked into the Dead's kitchen, Mountain Girl had attained iconic status, although it was not her way to pay any attention to it. [Laughs.]. Mountain Girl had seen the Dead in its earlier incarnations, but she didn't take special note of Jerry. It was sort of the unfortunate consequences of my actions, my procreative act. But unbeknownst to the guys, she was taking notes. 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. And her beauty. The name stuck. [11][12] She formerly served on the board of the Women's Visionary Council. I watched MG and Jerry connect. 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 stayed up in Oregon much longer than I thought I should. It's got little mottos written all over it." The fairy tale soured. It's the price the individual pays for the overall benefit of the planet. Following Jerry Garcia's death, Carolyn Garcia was involved in litigation to obtain payments as per their divorce settlement agreement, ultimately agreeing to a $1,250,000 settlement to avoid further legal costs. You can't do drugs when you're in a coma.". [5] Kesey was arrested for marijuana possession in La Honda, in 1965 and fled to Mexico. He was 53. It never happened. ", When I ask her how she felt about the name, she tells me she didn't like it because she didn't choose it. "You could come stay with me," he said. ", "The bus is the real talisman," said Kesey a few weeks later. ", "Bill is a wonderful man," says Sunshine Kesey, who, with her halo of white-blond curls resembles her father, Ken Kesey. 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). The loss of his father was absolutely devastating for him as a little boy.". It was something we did amongst ourselves. REVIEWS. And this is no ordinary late-night, East Bay, marijuana mind game. For MG, which is how her intimates shorten her name, the Pranksters were her college, the University of Fun. But at the same time, there was a slightly Victorian tinge to the whole thing. I know shes been working on her memoir. She had $600 in her pocket and she was 17 years old. Meanwhile, Koons Garcia's attorney, Paul Camera, has indicated that he will advise his client to appeal. Not a subscriber? He faked a suicide and split for Mexico, basically leaving a pregnant 18-year-old - Mountain Girl - behind him. 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. 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. Soon after they coupled up, Mountain Girl moved with the baby into 710 Ashbury, the Dead's commune in the Haight, coincidentally on the day that Tangerine moved out. Last year, rapper Method Man launched TICAL flower and followed up recently with. The. It happened in the summer of 1964 at St. Michael's Caf in Palo Alto, California. My attention would get distracted and I would miss a cue and Pigpen (McKernan, the Dead's late organist) would be up there pointing to his microphone and be really mad at me. "He was just the guitar player," she says. Two years later, she got the dreaded call: Garcia had died of a heart attack at a drug-treatment facility. Circling back to Jerry, over the past few years, The Days Between [the period between Garcias birth on August 1 and death on August 9] has become a significant event. While she was fast approaching her due date, Kesey was off dealing with his lawyers. The guy teaching in the room next to her was a 21-year-old named Jerry Garcia. Tags Arts & Culture Springfield ken kesey Sunshine Kesey Road Trip Tiffany Eckert Tiffany joined the KLCC News team in 2007. "They pressured me to tell them where he was," she says. With Sunshine slung to her hip, Mountain Girl fell into communal living. 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. "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. "I was more than seven months pregnant and I didn't have shit. 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. "I was glad he wasn't there," she says, "but I was a little hurt he didn't come to see me." But they were reluctant to tell Mountain Girl, lest they hurt her. Theyre super high-end, creative, productive business people. View All Result . I am just kind of there to encourage all this stuff to happen. Theyre like musicians; they just need assistance. "The job was to run the mass spectrometer on the night shift," she writes in her memoir. She never taught me any rules and benched me forever." Its part of what I want to share with othersthat whole inner freedom and expansiveness. In 1966, Kesey was still officially a fugitive. None. ", At the same time, she says, "it was joyous.". That is really something." She was, she recalls, "a beatnik." It kept him very up. I think I went for a lot of stuff. Meals got planned; bathrooms were cleaned. 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. Were real people. Like any other rock and roller, Jerry Garcia was under tremendous pressure to fool around. ", "She is an authentic personality," says Dennis McNally, former public relations manager for the Grateful Dead and now publicist for Grateful Dead Productions. Left to moulder in the weeds. The hood was open. The band came back from Woodstock in August 1969 "looking like they'd been in a war zone," she says. I jumped in to make a few dinners and keep the pantry stocked. I was locked in. We did the best we could. Mountain Girl is so awesome, I would love to read her memoir or autobiography. It was all over the newspapers, and it was a huge story, and we felt guilty at having called for this." ", "Jerry had told me what he wanted me to do," says Jon McIntire. Over the summer, she took a waitressing job and put college on hold. He stood there eyeing her up her long dark hair, her big bright smile the latest Alice to have fallen through the rabbit hole. It was cozy enough, and I felt perfectly safe. The machine was down. It hadn't been running for a very long time. When I met Kesey and the Pranksters, I had that understanding immediately - that these guys were going to be my friends for a very long time. "I just said, 'I have no idea he disappeared.' So youve gotta stay grounded, stay humble, be realistic. Now, after keeping her writings in a box for years, she had decided to share her memoir with me. "I haven't had another relationship really since then. 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. When she returned, they got together. "He'd fill it with music, drugs, girlfriends, whatever. that was it for him. 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. MG, as her family and friends call her, is finally ready to be the author of her own story. Lihat Semua Hasil . It's a bright, crisp morning on a leafy street in Eugene, Oregon. All Carolyn Garcia ever wanted was a family with her children and Jerry Garcia. Mountain Girl believes he was still suffering from the trauma of seeing his father, Joe, drown on a fishing trip when he was 6. Her function? But in the six months they'd been gone, something had changed. "My heart opened," she says. Growing up, I went to the high school where 420 was coined [San Rafael High School], so theres that. While living together over the next decade, they raised Sunshine along with their two daughters. A A. It was before the age of security gates, and all sorts of bizarre hangers-on started planting themselves in the Garcia parking area. 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. ", And so Mountain Girl became a handmaiden to genius, a term she calls "horrible, but true." "Jerry decided to spend more time away from the house and in his studio. The seeds of hippiedom - question authority, love the one you're with, share and share alike - were fueled by marijuana and psychedelics and accompanied by the twang of guitars and banjos. "I wasn't a hundred percent Ken's girlfriend," she says. Moan Desolation Row Looks Like Rain The Winners Victim Or The Crime Wasserman Bass Improvisation No. "He seemed to be a dangerous kind of guy, sort of angular, like a trucker. It was the summer of 1963. "Bill serves her. 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. "After he had left and moved in with Deborah. We tried to keep the mess to a minimum. Throughout his adventures, he had always come back to Mountain Girl. "Later MG told me that when she met Jerry," remembers McIntire, "she recognized in him that his music was the stuff of greatness. "I didn't want any whinging. 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. They were going to look for Kesey. "[5], Cassady took her to La Honda, California, Kesey's base of operations, where she quickly joined the inner circle of Pranksters and became romantically involved with Kesey, having a daughter by him named Sunshine. "It was a very egalitarian moment a lot of sharing, a lot of caring," she says. They were a team. But she's come out ahead of the game. One of their cats was killed. "I was mind-boggled and yet, there it was, happening inside my head." 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. 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. For the two of them, says Scully, "it was a great big love.". I actually call her and harass her about it pretty often. 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 couldn't freak freely and stay up all night and run up and down the ladders," she says. Having it be so intimate and humble is totally cool. Not at all. He had a very bright, engaging repartee going all the time, which I just loved. I just had to go with it. We cleaned our grass in an old aluminum colander, and stored the kilo of Acapulco gold in a kitchen cupboard. She wrote one of the first books on marijuana farming, "The Primo Plant: Growing Sinsemilla Marijuana," back in 1977. "You could buy bennies over the counter in Mexico, and I think he'd been doing more than his share," she says. Garcia was married with a daughter of his own, but his wife had moved back to Palo Alto without him. Her eyes well with tears. ULASAN. He did not want to share that information or even have to dig into all that information. "He was just the guitar player," she says. Mom escaped. Jerry Garcia is just the latest celebrity to have his legacy immortalized in Colorado with a weed brand. There were daisies growing up through the floor boards. ", "Don't kid yourself," says Jon McIntire. Le yaourt gratuit n'a pas dur longtemps.Chuck et Sue Kesey s'attendaient ce qu'environ 5. Bradley clutches my arm, massaging my knee and rubbing my ankle and chuckling to himself. "We mustered the instruments up on the roof thinking to lead a parade to the Cow Palace. He was one of these people where the first time you see him, he's kind of personable, and then the next time, he's starting to disintegrate.". 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.". 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? Its nice to lose yourself in a piece of art. "We were delighted. For Carolyn Adams, encountering Kesey and the Pranksters was like coming home, as if she'd been looking for people like them all of her life. 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. But she wasn't looking for another man to step in. The group, she realized, "was his version of the nuthouse. I could go in there, but I didn't like it. ", The Pranksters, ever dutiful, came to his aid. And he hadn't been supporting her and their child. A friend had smuggled him across the border to an undisclosed location in Mexico. Were trying to live up to a set of ideals and work with folks who understand what Jerry means to people. The family moved from house to house (Annabelle Garcia says that she went to no less than 13 schools, "just like an Army brat" ). ", 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 always wanted to be a writer," she tells me with a sly smile. Faye, Kesey's wife and the mother of their three young children, barely talked to her. He never did respond well to pressure of any kind. ", Today, 60 years since she took that ride with Neal Cassady, Mountain Girl is still forging her own path. Nobody can measure up. Top editors give you the stories you want delivered right to your inbox each weekday. There wasn't a whole lot I could do to go chasing around worrying to see what had happened to Jerry. I think that two people hiding out in the same family would have been even more difficult. In early 1964, she met Neal Cassady, who introduced her to countercultural figure and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest author Ken Kesey. From her parents, young Carolyn inherited an adoration of nature. Both felt the $5 million figure was fair, she said. She has won awards from Oregon Associated Press, PRNDI, and Education Writers Association. "Ooh man," she told him, "there's something. And perhaps the Prankster thing had gotten a little stale for her at that point.". Compared to what the fans know and want to cultivate, Im no expert. I want to be lighting fires with a flint and steel! "They were a couple. The farm hasn't changed much. "It's a perilous society if you don't look a certain way," he said. They were moving around, and I go, 'Oh, isn't that cute?'" Movies. Jerry Garcia exclaimed. (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. Once again, Carolyn took her children away to Oregon, to a newly purchased patch of verdant acreage in the Willamette Valley. Cassady had told Kesey that he met this girl who was a little wild, "like she was kind of a mountain girl," says Kesey. She realigns her shoulders and runs her large hands through a luxuriant mop of silver and black hair. ", Any hopes she had of a joyful reunion were dashed the moment they found Kesey. All there was was Synanon, and I wasn't going to call them!" I was floored. Or, as Kesey told Tom Wolfe: "Either you are on the bus or off the bus." ", "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. Mountain Girl and Garcia divorced in 1993. 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. The moment she hugged him, she felt a flash. Today, vestiges of the slender, heart-stoppingly beautiful girl-woman who caught Kesey's eye in 1964 remain - the fierce intelligence, the take-control bossy stick, the intellectual acuity, the ability to cut through a morass of pretense to the heart of the matter, the boisterousness, the guilelessness, the curiosity, the laughter. I am also happy that we found companies that are privately owned and family run. Through her window she saw legions of young people with long hair and colorful pants, smoking, dancing, playing guitar. she realized she needed to make a change. 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 Ken Kesey's ranch in La Honda, California, where Mountain Girl joined the Pranksters. Ken (Kesey) could have made yard art out of it. He had dumped all of his belongings in the Garcia driveway, including a box with a cat in it. To what extent do you currently explore your own creative expressions? PLEASANT HILL, Oregon - "Come on and see The Bus," ordered Mountain Girl over her shoulder as she rushed hell-for-leather down the back steps of Ken Kesey's red barn home. Mountain Girl and Jerry moved into an apartment of their own, and she got pregnant again. Carolyn Elizabeth Adams was born on May 6, 1946 in Poughkeepsie, New York, where she also grew up. We were very, very happy with each other. They separated in December 1966 and were divorced in 1978. Tiffany joined the KLCC News team in 2007. Jerry didn't really do a lot of maintenance. It's still owned by Sunshine and the Kesey family. he says to me, looking out, holding out some grimy bennies in his palm. "Neal basically dropped me off like fresh meat," she recalls. I'm not a great anti-abortionist, but it never came up.". It's a piece of my childhood. If you were stupid, she'd tell you so. We are on this planet to live, not to die.". "The weight thing wasn't that simple. This construct of human civilization is not the end all, be all. 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. "Jerry loved his work," says Garcia in retrospect. Until, in 1986, a phone call came telling her that Jerry was in Marin General Hospital in a diabetic coma and that he was not expected to live. But she felt as if he'd scored Kesey something else as well: this plucky 19-year-old from Poughkeepsie. They didn't have kids and it looked like they were having some fun. But she turned down their offer to become a member. Finances were cleared up. I feel like we still have a relationship with the fans and are able to deliver things that delight and encourage more good vibes. "[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. Written in red paint, the front bumper proclaimed "CAUTION WEIRD LOAD. 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. ", "I never met a woman with quite as much machismo as this girl had," marvels Scully. I rebelled against the Grateful Dead as a teenager. Bill is finally the right person for my mom. The Bus, with "Furthur" written like a title across the top. "I was on the hunt for compatible people," says Garcia now. 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 moment she hugged him, she felt a flash. Why, I take four or five to go to sleep!". What really happened, Garcia says, is that she marched into a film studio in San Rafael and handed Deborah Koons a one-way ticket back to New York which, Koons Garcia told the press, "Jerry and I cashed it in.". What the hell just happened? Carolyn Garcia's monthly payments, at this point, are still suspended. We want to work with folks who bring a very high level of quality and integrity.. Inside was Kesey's suicide note: "Ocean, ocean, I'll beat you in the end," it read. And I was like: What a bunch of baloney. I just didn't want to compete anymore. 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. "That was my golden destination.". "I'm so glad to see you!" She also says that she started putting on weight "out of self-defense. I think its important for people to have an alternative to alcohol, an alternative to opiates. Sunshine was about two or three months old and she was in this little basket. Obviously, were not huge, but it would be nice to do something like that one day. The joy started to end around 1974, when the Grateful Dead decided to take a break. Mountain Girl was equally defiant about their arrest. 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