In 1993, Jerry Garcia asked Mountain Girl for a divorce. When she stepped off the bus holding Sunshine, she recognized a familiar face coming up to greet her. Readers have been afforded plenty of accounts of riding shotgun with Cassady, but never from the perspective of a hitchhiking woman. I am quite certain that it was a comfort to him as well as to me. ", Mountain Girl and Jerry divorced in 1993. A friend had smuggled him across the border to an undisclosed location in Mexico. So that kind of separated me. I got a huge jolt, and I had a very vivid image of us being together. I'll go through with my heels at your hungry ribs.". "Well," he replied, "you must be Mountain Girl. "I felt bad when it was taken down into the woods and abandoned. "He was just the guitar player," she says. It's a bright, crisp morning on a leafy street in Eugene, Oregon. "Where did you come from?" Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go. Its not necessarily great business talk, but my ability to detach is also crucial. by Petrus A. Neither of us knew the language of sorting out your personal relationships," Carolyn says. ", 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. It can be nice, but I should also point out that it has definitely worked against some people. In 1980, on New Year's Eve, they got married by a Buddhist monk backstage at a Dead concert. Mountain Girl, second wife of Jerry Garcia, holds her daughter, Sunshine, backstage at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. Carolyn Elizabeth Adams was born on May 6, 1946 in Poughkeepsie, New York, where she also grew up. We did the best we could. During this period, he rekindled his relationship with Koons, who had been largely out of his life since the late 1970s; they would ultimately marry in February 1994. 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. But I was anti-cocaine," she says pausing. she recalls with a laugh. I didn't know how to ask for help. One of her father's progenitors was Dr. Samuel Adams, a physician in General Burgoyne's army during the Revolutionary War. Trixie Garcia, her youngest, has come up from Oakland. "I suppose I would have been pretty good pickings for a cult," she laughs. Sunshine was about two or three months old and she was in this little basket. Looming out of the deep shadows across the yard was an enormous painted bus, dim and bulbous and mysterious as Moby Dick. It hadn't been running for a very long time. 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. 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. That she was 18, unmarried and pregnant with Kesey's child didn't really register until the birth was upon her. Tiffany Eckert 10 of 15 The Kesey Clan surrounds Geneva Jolley Kesey Family 11 of 15 Springfield's Peter DeFazio at his Congressional Headquarters. "Jerry and I had our arguments, but it never led to anything good. Not even when she and Jerry, after two children and 15 years together, got married on New Year's Eve 1981, between sets at the Dead's traditional New Year's show. Pretty much all at once. She and Jerry lived off his $50 a week in gig money. ", The closer she grew to Jerry, the further she drifted from Kesey. "I slept with some of the other Pranksters from time to time." Jerry Garcia exclaimed. Three others died at Altamont that day, including a fan who took too much LSD and drowned in an irrigation ditch. He is her "handmaiden.' This year it also served as a major platform for charitable endeavors. Getting into the cannabis industry was something I was determined to do. She and Garcia lived off his $50 a week in gig money. 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. "The Haight-Ashbury era," as Tom Wolfe later wrote, "began that weekend.". State. In her senior year of high school, she got expelled for sneaking into the boys locker room to see their new Nautilus machine. Kesey describes that first meeting with a literary allusion: "Vonnegut's phrase a "karass' comes to mind. Even back in those pre-women's liberation days, Carolyn Adams was an in-your-face challenge for any male. I think that two people hiding out in the same family would have been even more difficult. 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. Having it be so intimate and humble is totally cool. The previously unreleased complete performance is mastered from John Cutler's original soundboard recordings. ", When I ask her how she felt about the name, she tells me she didn't like it because she didn't choose it. "There were always girls coming out of the woodwork," says Mountain Girl. "It was written all over his face. And her beauty. 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.". (Kesey had been a participant in 1959). "Jerry and I had a fortunate relationship. She wrote one of the first books on marijuana farming, "The Primo Plant: Growing Sinsemilla Marijuana," back in 1977. But Mountain Girl had been around long enough to know that, in the words painted on the Pranksters' bus, Nothing Lasts. He could see the musical notes, he told her. ", Jerry never said a word, said Mountain Girl. Then came the Summer of Love. Before I leave Kesey's farm, Mountain Girl and I walk outside to the old brown barn where Furthur now rests. The paint is faded. ", Still facing pot charges in San Francisco, she had to hitchhike up and down the coast for her court appearances, five hours each way. Jerry and Carolyn were married by a Jewish friend who was also a Tibetan monk in a ceremony missed by most of the band members. Theres so much scrutiny and I just wanna enjoy it. "She didn't say anything of any note except to acknowledge my presence. 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. You could feel it. Jerry promised that they would get a house together. By then, things at their Stinson Beach aerie, Sans Souci, on a ridge high above the beach, had gotten pretty weird. Why, I take four or five to go to sleep!". Because for him it was a living fluid. "Hitchhiked up I-5, pregnant with no money whatsoever, begging cups of coffee off of people." "It was a very egalitarian moment a lot of sharing, a lot of caring," she says. The Days Between is obviously based off a song, and the fans took it over after Jerry died. She spent every minute she could out of doors, exploring the local terrain and, she writes, "imagining myself running long distance over the old Mohawk trail or hunting deer or making the clothes and foods of the Indians." Mountain Girl sued to get the money owned her. "But Ken by that time was also aging, not too gracefully, and I don't drink. Thats a whole thing that wasnt even acceptable in the fine art world like 20 years ago. Inside was Kesey's suicide note: "Ocean, ocean, I'll beat you in the end," it read. I was not seeking the spotlight. Mountain Girl had to "marry" her fellow Prankster George Walker to get the birth certificate. What the hell is going on? "I was like, whoa, that was a really electric moment!" The psychedelic culture the Pranksters had pioneered DayGlo paint, jam bands, LSD had a new name: hippie. ", But she "wasn't happy about the (female stuff). ", David Kushneris a long-time contributor to Rolling Stone. "My heart opened," she says. I know shes been working on her memoir. ", It didn't help matters when Mountain Girl made an alarming discovery: She was pregnant. "I was mortified," she says. But Ive gotten more confident as far as using my creative impulses or intuition to help guide the look and feel of some of the brand licenses and products. Certainly, for my own peace of mind, I cant work with anyone who thinks my dad was a deity or something. In those days, Mountain Girl was the brash, 19-year-old "it girl" of the nascent psychedelic underground. My moms memoir has become my number-one focus over the past six months. "The job was to run the mass spectrometer on the night shift," she writes in her memoir. We also partnered with Tessemaes, which is an eco-conscious salad dressing company. No Result . I got a huge jolt, and I had a very vivid image of us being together. The hood was open. The Man Share Music Video for Dummy, Outline New LP, Joe Louis Walker: Scaling The Electric Fence. Their agrarian entourage includes a quartet of donkeys, a dozen sheep, two dogs (Chiquita, an ancient, deaf Border Collie mix and Penny, an apricot standard poodle) and two cats. Both of her parents encouraged her interest in the natural world. Ken Kesey's girlfriend Mountain Girl holds her baby daughter Sunshine. That was his happiest space. I couldn't believe it. ", She's still a psychedelic priestess, though she's down to shrooming twice a year. that was it for him. "I began to realize the dangers of celebrity that had to do with the Grateful Dead attracting a lot of people to themselves who were unconventional. The first in a series of archive releases celebrating the run of Jerry Garcia shows on Broadway in Oct/Nov 1987. Palo Alto in the early 1960s was a dynamic crucible of the radical changes to come. 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. Mountain Girl had seen the Dead in its earlier incarnations, but she didn't take special note of Jerry. 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. She eschewed the fashion pursuits of the time. For Carolyn Adams, the trip to wonderland started when a famously Mad Hatter offered her a ride. His new book is "Easy to Learn, Difficult to Master: Pong, Atari, and the Dawn of the Video Game.". ", "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. They were moving around, and I go, 'Oh, isn't that cute?'" Can you share a status update on that? People were just sleeping on the street in their shorts in the San Francisco fog, and getting terribly chilled. It was not to be. "I had to take responsibility for this child." And Faye, his wife, was struggling with the whole thing. Jerry was a right person, too, but unfortunately, he was stuck and trapped in a circumstance he didn't want to be in. 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.". I think I did the best I could with a tough situation. The Oregon connection centered her and gave her the strength to go on. He had a very bright, engaging repartee going all the time, which I just loved. Carolyn "went to war with her" and eventually, the gym teacher saw to it that she was expelled only six weeks before graduation. She was amazingly beautiful. "We were trying to do an end run on the legal system and get the ball around to the other side of the court without having to engage a whole lot of people in the process. She had finally gotten a divorce from George Walker who, she said, "was living on a sailboat in Samoa." Two years later, she got the dreaded call: Garcia had died of a heart attack at a drug-treatment facility. "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. There were daisies growing up through the floor boards. Jerry and I were head over heels in love, and radiant with happiness. "I wasn't a hundred percent Ken's girlfriend," she says. She'd fled her hometown of Poughkeepsie, New York, to become the unlikely teenage matriarch for the counterculture's most celebrated influencers, the Merry Pranksters. ", "I never spoke with her about any of it until after the fact," said Sue Swanson. I'd really kind of like to stay out of that discussion because we're good friends and she's a very private person. Its a place for people to get together and still be able to connect with Jerry. The first time any of Kesey's literary mob ever saw Carolyn Adams, late of Hyde Park, N.Y., she was seated in a Palo Alto cafe, reading a book when Prankster and Beat icon Neal Cassady and a handsome young blond guy with a Beatle haircut named Bradley picked her up and invited her for a ride. She opted out of the Grateful Dead scene for the sake of her three little girls, Sunshine Kesey, her daughter with Ken Kesey, and Annabelle and Theresa Garcia, her children with Jerry Garcia. My mom raised me, and she protected us from all of that by moving us to rural Oregon. Destination #1: SpringfieldWhen: Friday, 2/17/17Where: Washburne Caf, Springfield, ORWhat: KLCC Staff rolled into Springfield in their mobile studio to meet the public and learn more about the community. Bill is finally the right person for my mom. It would prove to be a pivotal moment in the history of the counterculture. I didn't know what to do. Her parents, Ruth and Alfred, prized knowledge over material possessions and she grew up the tomboy little sister of two older brothers whose excellence in academics and athletics challenged and frustrated her. Part of that was the elasticity of the relationship and how it could adapt to stuff. Finances were cleared up. I mean, there were no "scenes.' All of Jerrys kids are artists in one way or another. But I went for it. But as Jerry's addiction worsened, MG took the girls and moved to a farm in Oregon, where some of the other Pranksters had moved. Adams was offered a job in the Stanford cafeteria, but drawing on her knowledge of science she hustled one in the organic-chemistry lab instead. If you were stupid, she'd tell you so. 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. Doyle, Jim. How long have you been thinking about a cannabis brand? It's not a thing anybody owns or controls. But in the six months they'd been gone, something had changed. Mountain Girl had already had one abortion, during which she vividly recalls tripping on ketamine, which was used as sedative. Had a quick mind - quick on the pickup with puns, jokes and comments. The others quickly took note of this dynamic new girl in their midst. He was 53. We partnered with Keen to do a line of shoes, and they have been supporting HeadCount through the Vote Love campaign, which is a get-out-the-vote campaign that were also working on. "There was something that needed to be done and when you got all these people together, it was suddenly possible to do it. at Red Rocks Garcia's 75th Bday. Jerry Garcia is just the latest celebrity to have his legacy immortalized in Colorado with a weed brand. At Jerry's funeral, Annabelle, his older daughter with Mountain Girl, said, "He was a great musician and a shitty father." With Jerry at her side, Mountain Girl was at the center of it all, counting Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin among her growing family of friends. "I was more than seven months pregnant and I didn't have shit. "Jerry decided to spend more time away from the house and in his studio. He had been in a coma. I wanted to sidestep that rock star wife thing as much as possible. Lihat Semua Hasil . Sunshine Becker (born Sunshine Flower Garcia on July 1, 1972) is an American singer who performed backing vocals for the band Furthur. Mountain Girl walked around it, peering in the windows. The middle is a lousy place to sit. 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. 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. Through our Discourse journalism, Insider seeks to explore and illuminate the days most fascinating issues and ideas. I look at it another way as well. "That left a giant hole in his personality he was constantly trying to fill," she says. ", "She is an authentic personality," says Dennis McNally, former public relations manager for the Grateful Dead and now publicist for Grateful Dead Productions. At home in Oregon, where she's down to shrooming twice a year. Photo: Gene Anthony: 1966 But part of it was MG and the family and wanting to embrace that. "And then all of a sudden it was too much. They ran a bar in San Francisco. His eyes smiled. And she wanted to help that greatness.". Either you were with Kesey or not with Kesey. Late one night, alone in the Stanford lab, she decided to try some other interesting stuff. When they returned, Jerry's heroin use was getting so extreme even Mountain Girl was noticing it. 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. 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. "I'm not sorry about it particularly," she said. Things weren't supposed to work out this way. 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. "I was a strong suit," she says. But much of that time, Jerry was on tour. Be the first to know about the Grateful Dead's exclusive limited-edition releases, breaking news on the band, community events, and so much more. "[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. REVIEWS. In those early days, she didn't take special note of Garcia. 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). "I'll break you this time. 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. Jerry Garcia exclaimed. That was what was available, & it is still the best. They helped organize the Altamont festival, a sort of "Woodstock West." "Girls didn't have as much personal freedom as boys did," she remembers. Growing up, all this visionary artist stufflike psychedelic art, comic book artserved as my inspiration. "I cry when I see the bus now, are you kidding?" Says Kesey: "There was never a question that she would not have the baby, gosh, no. He was clean out of necessity. By the time she returned, her confidence was at an all-time high.She had had an opportunity to develop her own talents, including a gift for writing, in a brief sojourn at an eastern college. There was no uncertainty about that.". Ken Kesey was in a lot of trouble in 1965 with the authorities in San Mateo for a marijuana bust. I fear she did most of the adapting.". "After he had left and moved in with Deborah. Once again, Carolyn took her children away to Oregon, to a newly purchased patch of verdant acreage in the Willamette Valley. "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. Weve met lots of people and toured lots of different places, and thought about many different ways to structure this. After an acid trip, it's always desirable to have a cozy warm spot to retreat to and sleep, even outdoors. The future Mrs. Garcia was taking guitar lessons at Dana Morgan's Music Store in Stanford, California, when she heard Jerry's voice coming from the next room. 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. The free concert, scheduled for December 6, 1969, would include performances by the Dead, Santana, Jefferson Airplane, and the Rolling Stones. In early 1964, she met Neal Cassady, who introduced her to countercultural figure and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest author Ken Kesey. There were people everywhere looking for anything, looking for a place to lie down. The personal relationships within the band and their own personal relationships shattered under tremendous pressure. A long, strange trip led Mountain Girl to Kesey's final home. Nobody can measure up. Garcia had indeed gone to live with a slender, intense and dark New York City film student named Deborah Koons whom he had met at a show in 1973 and who had hitched a ride back to New York City on the Dead's bus. She quickly joined the inner circle of Pranksters and became romantically involved with Kesey, having a daughter together named Sunshine. "I could hear his voice and somebody else's voice," she tells me. The fight over his intellectual and real property continues. We were very, very happy with each other. I want to be lighting fires with a flint and steel! "He'd fill it with music, drugs, girlfriends, whatever. "She ended up being responsible (if that concept is even thinkable in this context) for mixing the multiple mutable audio loops connecting every part of the space with every other. "I just said, 'I have no idea he disappeared.' Someone had alerted the police that America's Most Wanted Acid Preacher was up on the roof getting high with a girl. It happened in the summer of 1964 at St. Michael's Caf in Palo Alto, California. Konser Grateful Dead di Oregon pada tahun 1972 menyelamatkan produk susu keluarga Kesey dan menjadi legenda kontra. And it is in Pleasant Hill, in the bucolic greenness of the Willamette Valley, that she now lives on 16 acres with her new love, Bill Burwell, 49, a huge, shambling, robust ex-logger with a split between his teeth, ruddy cheeks and a long, salt-and-pepper gray pony tail. [6], She had a relationship with another Prankster named George Walker, who would become her husband in 1966. 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