Ken kesey

In 1964 Ken Kesey published Sometimes a Great Notion, the follow-up to his smash novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest; in order to meet certain obligations in New York City, Kesey decided to use a psychedelically-painted school bus as his means of getting there from the West Coast. The bus, of course, was called Further or, if you were in the mood, Furthur. It was all a great romantic quest to make known the benefits of LSD, at a time when the drug was not illegal in the United States (that…

Fifty years ago Santa Cruz hosted a landmark moment in counterculture history

A farm boy from the Willamette Valley, Ken Kesey brought an earthy, independent spirit to the American literary scene and to his self-designated role as the yo…

Ken Kesey assembled his Merry Pranksters and other kindred spirits for one more, and final, prank—a semi-regular book series that contained pieces of his unfinished novel about his beloved grandmother, and contributions from a who’s

A new version of Tom Wolfe’s classic features never-before-seen manuscript pages, journal entries, and photographs.

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So much has been written about the 1960s, sometimes it's hard to tell myth from reality. Such is the case with the story of Ken Kesey and the Merry Band of Pranksters.

the further bus was a bus that author ken kesey and the 'merry pranksters' drove across the country in the mid 60s dropping acid and encouraging free-thinking, spontanaity, and creativity. the bus in this picture is actually further II, a second bus aquired by kesey in '90 after the first had broken down beyond repair. oregon country fair

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