50 Years Ago #OnThisDay - June 14, 1964 Ken Kesey & the non-conventional improvisational activists the Merry Pranksters took a cross-country trip in a school bus nicknamed Furthur. This trip, described in Tom Wolfes The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (and later in Keseys own screenplay The Further Inquiry) was the groups attempt to create art out of everyday life. After the bus trip, the Pranksters threw parties they called Acid Tests around the San Francisco Bay Area from 1965 to 1966, the house band was San Franciscos Grateful Dead. Many of the Pranksters lived at Keseys residence in La Honda, CA. In New York, Cassady introduced Kesey to Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, who then turned them on to Timothy Leary.
Posted on: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 18:40:26 +0000
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