I couldn't understand why I was born a girl. "I slept with some of the other Pranksters from time to time." 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. Before Garcia died of a heart attack in a dry-out facility in Forest Knolls on Aug. 9, 1995, he'd already paid Mountain Girl their agreed-upon $20,883 per month for a period of 18 months. I'd really kind of like to stay out of that discussion because we're good friends and she's a very private person. At first, in the disorienting wake of the Sixties, she and Jerry had retreated to a secluded home in Stinson Beach, California, where the girls grew up. I think I did the best I could with a tough situation. Those two are the biggest people in every way - big souls, big hearts, big egos, big personalities. A long, strange trip led Mountain Girl to Kesey's final home. He put the mojo on me. (December 12, 1996). 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." Photo: Gene Anthony: 1966 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. "The band got to be very big and very much the nexus and focus of hundreds and thousands of people. What is your perspective on how it has evolved? So yes, me and my sisters are working on getting those stories out of her tightly clenched fingers. "After he had left and moved in with Deborah. It was a form of synesthesia: little notes with different little cartoon beings, each with its own personality. It was warm," she recalls. The first time Mountain Girl climbed onto the mythic bus, she was 18. The bus, however, was in a hiccupy mood and would only get moving 25 miles an hour up the hill, choking and gasping, overloaded and full of very high Pranksters.". "He was just the guitar player," she says. But I was a little envious of the glamour queens, you know. We were very, very happy with each other. The family moved from house to house (Annabelle Garcia says that she went to no less than 13 schools, "just like an Army brat" ). "[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. He loved to work. Tracks Listen Buy Opening Announcment Deep Elem Blues Movies. His pedal steel and a chair the only furniture. "I was like, 'Whoa, that was a really electric moment!'" Which is why I went and took it to court. 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. "She didn't move into another woman's house," says Tangerine. Thirty years ago, in the dawning of psychedelia, Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, that tatterdemalion pre-hippie/post-Beat caravansary of performers, musicians, poets, magicians, gypsies, tramps and fools crammed into their gaily-painted 1939 International-Harvester, and drove their way into the American consciousness on the rollicking prose of Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. "Cassady was on a speed run, looking for bennies," Garcia remembers. We are on a rock hurtling through space, and its all amazing. I think I did a pretty good job. Adams Garcia, a large woman with long, graying hair and no makeup, a former Merry Prankster who had two daughters with Jerry Garcia and another named Sunshine with Ken Kesey, undoubtedly. She was pregnant by Kesey, 11 years her senior, who was married with kids. The machine was down. The gray-haired woman, who bears a striking resemblance to Jerry, is his 45-year-old daughter, Trixie. She was broke. "Ken was upset that I hooked up with Jerry," she says. Koons Garcia and Weir took a portion of Garcia's ashes to India two weeks ago and spread them . 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 . And then this sort of unusual set of circumstances occurred whereby Jerry " Her conversation tails off into an uncomfortable silence. The first in a series of archive releases celebrating the run of Jerry Garcia shows on Broadway in Oct/Nov 1987. And frankly, I'm glad we didn't, because I think if we'd fought it out too much, we would have lost each other. It was sort of the unfortunate consequences of my actions, my procreative act. The fight over his intellectual and real property continues. 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. "It'll ruin my calluses if I do the dishes,' he told me. I feel like we still have a relationship with the fans and are able to deliver things that delight and encourage more good vibes. 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. Mountain Girl kept her gig as the projectionist, painting the walls with colors as the trippers danced to the Dead. ", Her mother, a botanist and a school teacher, "abhorred gender classification," says Garcia. Well, I loved Kerouac.". ", "She is an authentic personality," says Dennis McNally, former public relations manager for the Grateful Dead and now publicist for Grateful Dead Productions. Caravans of Deadheads turned Jerry and Mountain Girl into godheads. But, says Gordon "Dass" Adams, Carolyn Garcia's oldest brother, "Jerry was a lousy husband.". "There were a lot of them around," she says. "I was mind-boggled and yet, there it was, happening inside my head." Like her, he was looking for family. Jerry was a right person, too, but unfortunately, he was stuck and trapped in a circumstance he didn't want to be in. ", Still facing pot charges in San Francisco, she had to hitchhike up and down the coast for her court appearances, five hours each way. Carolyn Garcia's monthly payments, at this point, are still suspended. It was the summer of 1963. Through our Discourse journalism, Insider seeks to explore and illuminate the days most fascinating issues and ideas. Everybody was attached to it.". Back when she was riding with the Hells Angels and tripping with the Dead, she was a teenager coming of age at a moment the whole world seemed to be coming apart. 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 "They were talking about chord progressions and all this interesting stuff.". I was hallucinating. 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? "He just disappeared. He's dead. Written in red paint, the front bumper proclaimed "CAUTION WEIRD LOAD. Despite the free-love ethos of the Sixties, she could feel the tension her affair with Kesey generated in the group. Carolyn Elizabeth Adams was born on May 6, 1946 in Poughkeepsie, New York, where she also grew up. Carolyn Adams heard Jerry Garcia before she saw him. It was before the age of security gates, and all sorts of bizarre hangers-on started planting themselves in the Garcia parking area. 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. Left to moulder in the weeds. 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. In October 1966, with her visa up, she rode back to San Francisco with her baby and the Pranksters. I was not seeking the spotlight. ", The Pranksters, ever dutiful, came to his aid. "It seemed the only safe place," she recalls. Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go. "The Haight-Ashbury era," as Tom Wolfe later wrote, "began that weekend.". "Just about nothing. Before the lawyer finally disappeared, Mountain Girl shooed him off her front porch with a small child's broom, smacking him over the head. 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. In 1980, on New Year's Eve, they got married by a Buddhist monk backstage at a Dead concert. 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. I believe growers are artists and they need good management. ", But, laughs Scully, "Nobody ever saw her and Jerry because they never came out of their room. Thats something I learned from my parents. It happened in the summer of 1964 at St. Michael's Caf in Palo Alto, California. "I didn't want any whinging. Occasionally, Mountain Girl would ferry the kids away to Oregon and once, during one long separation, took them all the way back East to be near her parents. Theres so much scrutiny and I just wanna enjoy it. 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. Throughout his adventures, he had always come back to Mountain Girl. "I was totally devastated," she says. Sunshine Kesey, Self: Move Me Brightly: Celebrating Jerry Garcia's 70th Birthday. "Not just a little upset. "It was awful," Mountain Girl says. I was just on board to do whatever.". Le yaourt gratuit n'a pas dur longtemps.Chuck et Sue Kesey s'attendaient ce qu'environ 5. She has won awards from Oregon Associated Press, PRNDI, and Education Writers Association. We want to work with folks who bring a very high level of quality and integrity.. Mountain Girl and Jerry Garcia were the stuff of hippie fairy tales, who dressed alike and thought alike and spoke as one person. In 1966, Kesey was still officially a fugitive. I know shes been working on her memoir. ", The closer she grew to Jerry, the further she drifted from Kesey. "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 didn't say anything of any note except to acknowledge my presence. And now, The Bus was retired. "I had a little "spill,' " she laughs, "and got really high. We cleaned our grass in an old aluminum colander, and stored the kilo of Acapulco gold in a kitchen cupboard. Other Pranksters went back and forth to America, but without money or means Mountain Girl felt trapped in Mexico. Jerry is dead. Its nice to lose yourself in a piece of art. Mountain Girl and Garcia divorced in 1993. "I just said, 'I have no idea he disappeared.' ", "The bus is the real talisman," said Kesey a few weeks later. Sunshine Kesey sits with her Grandmother, Geneva Jolley. Jerry didn't really do a lot of maintenance. So we found some awesome partners. That would have been a sin. "I didn't know what to do. "And I was like, 'Oh, my God!' I got a huge jolt, and I had a very vivid image of us being together. (October 15, 1998). He played to her all night. Sunshine Kesey, who grew up in the Garcia home, and Garcia's manager, Steve Parish, attended as well. The riotous paint job was murky and peeling, as if the bus had leprosy. so did Carolyn Garcia, with Sunshine, her baby daughter with . But now that she'd fallen in love with Garcia, Kesey seemed to realize what he'd lost. So I will say that sampling the product is a huge perk of the gig for me. Palo Alto in the early 1960s was a dynamic crucible of the radical changes to come. It was meaningful to me because its a way for us to participate in the scene. Kesey didn't show up, even after the birth. ", "Don't kid yourself," says Jon McIntire. Three others died at Altamont that day, including a fan who took too much LSD and drowned in an irrigation ditch. "I wasn't quite as daredevil as I had been. The bassist Phil Lesh considered Mountain Girl "the Prankster Queen," as he wrote in his memoir. While she was fast approaching her due date, Kesey was off dealing with his lawyers. But I went for it. "The moment we came back, Jerry was at my door to visit and within a month he was asking to move back in," says Mountain Girl. Tracks Festival Fever K.C. When she came to the one on the door that read "Nothing Lasts," she stopped in her tracks. "Where did you come from?" From the Merry Pranksters to the Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia's widow opens up about what the age of free love was really like. Both of her parents encouraged her interest in the natural world. She reconnected with Garcia a couple years later after leaving Kesey in Mexico, where he was hiding out to avoid U.S. drug charges, and returning to San Francisco with her daughter Sunshine.. And that was the end of the conversation. "That was my golden destination.". The battle between Mountain Girl and the woman some people secretly call "Dark Deborah" or the "Black Widow" has a long and difficult history going back more than 20 years. All there was was Synanon, and I wasn't going to call them!" I just didn't want to compete anymore. In 1975, when Theresa Garcia was not even a year old, Jerry disappeared. 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. Mountain Girl had seen the Dead in its earlier incarnations, but she didn't take special note of Jerry. You know. Since coming back to the States, he'd been embroiled in legal battles over his marijuana charges. Theres a simplicity with the no-nonsense, real-deal, getto-the-good-music feel of the space. I painted that bus! We often thought of ourselves as a karass. 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. She realigns her shoulders and runs her large hands through a luxuriant mop of silver and black hair. Eight months pregnant, Mountain Girl stepped off the Dead's helicopter at Altamont just in time to see Mick Jagger get punched in the head by a concertgoer. 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 always wanted to be a writer," she tells me with a sly smile. He faked a suicide and split for Mexico, basically leaving a pregnant 18-year-old - Mountain Girl - behind him. 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