"She's imposing all right," says David Gans, the proto-Deadhead historian who hosts "Dead to the World" on KPFA-FM radio. ", "School," writes Garcia in the beginnings of what may become her memoirs, "was an inner battleground. But in the six months they'd been gone, something had changed. "She spoke her mind and was quite tolerant except for anything that approached ignorance. Mountain Girl sued to get the money owned her. Sunshine Kesey sits with her Grandmother, Geneva Jolley. In 1959, Kesey had been a volunteer in a C.I.A.-sponsored LSD experiment at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Menlo Park. And now, The Bus was retired. But she embraced it nonetheless. 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. "Things changed," she says. 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. Chips and Twinkies. Or, as Kesey told Tom Wolfe: "Either you are on the bus or off the bus." Mountain Girl and Garcia divorced in 1993. I know shes been working on her memoir. Two years later, she got the dreaded call: Garcia had died of a heart attack at a drug-treatment facility. Along with the stories she told me over hours of interviews, it's a monumental lost chapter of American literature a funny, vivid, heartbreaking account of an indelible time and place, as told by the woman at the center of the wildness. We had so much fun on that bus. Pretty much all at once. Her maternal grandfather was a missionary in Allahabad, India, where her mother grew up. Mountain Girl's girlfriends had an idea where he was - living with Deborah Koons, a filmmaker he'd met at a concert in New York in 1973 with whom he'd stayed in contact. So Ive gotten much smaller. He's dead. [Laughs.]. His smile looms like a half moon that spins along with us through the trees. "There are things that can happen to people. But as Garcia's addiction worsened, Mountain Girl took their daughters and moved to a farm in Oregon, where some of the other Pranksters had moved. It was warm," she recalls. ", Mountain Girl and Jerry divorced in 1993. 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. Under the isolation and pressures of the road, Jerry slipped into cocaine and heroin addiction. I am just kind of there to encourage all this stuff to happen. ", All along Garcia understood that she had elected to keep the home fires burning and give her genius husband plenty of "space. Photo: Gene Anthony: 1966 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 think that its very important for her voice to be in the mix and very important that she is able to share how these different events unfoldedthe way she remembers them. Some of it is just knowing my dads personality and what things made him uncomfortable because he was a stylish guy. ", "The bus is the real talisman," said Kesey a few weeks later. She was pregnant by Kesey, 11 years her senior, who was married with kids. Having it be so intimate and humble is totally cool. She got a lot more happiness than anyone else in Grateful Dead Land.". Since coming back to the States, he'd been embroiled in legal battles over his marijuana charges. We weren't exactly a coven, we weren't a cult but we did seem to be involved with each other before we even met each other." After moving in with Jerry, the teenage matriarch of the Pranksters became the "den mother," as she puts it, of the Grateful Dead: cooking, cleaning, rustling them out the door on time. I think everybody had a crush on her.". My moms memoir has become my number-one focus over the past six months. That was sort of my style, to ask the really tough questions right away.". I actually call her and harass her about it pretty often. And in what medium do you prefer to work? Kesey dubbed them the Acid Tests. Shes @bluebelle42 on Instagram. But his antic exit was no joke to the broke, homeless, pregnant teenager he had unceremoniously left behind. It was a form of synesthesia: little notes with different little cartoon beings, each with its own personality. Carolyn Garcia's monthly payments, at this point, are still suspended. View All Result . ", "Jerry and MG were absolutely a blessing to hang out around," says McIntire. Despite the free-love ethos of the Sixties, she could feel the tension her affair with Kesey generated in the group. So that kind of separated me. 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. ", Her parents didn't know she was pregnant, so she was stuck with the Pranksters. "Old-time farmers used manure, compost, bird shit, etc. "She didn't move into another woman's house," says Tangerine. "You might say I was in denial," she says. He put the mojo on me. And then there was a former Philadelphia assistant district attorney who drove West, determined to "move in with Jerry.". Eventually, rejection by her peers got easier to handle. "Neal basically dropped me off like fresh meat," she recalls. She moved to Europe with a boyfriend for a year but wrote to Garcia. She was still dropping acid before the shows, albeit in smaller doses. He never did respond well to pressure of any kind. There wasn't a whole lot I could do to go chasing around worrying to see what had happened to Jerry. But, for me, its kind of like a meditative practice. At the time, Kesey, the Pranksters and The Bus had just come back from their cross-country hegira; Wolfe had written the pieces for New York magazine that eventually became his bestselling book; Kesey was orchestrating the Acid Test concert/psychedelic experiences and the house band was the budding Grateful Dead (formerly the Warlocks) featuring a half Irish, half Spanish banjo/guitar whiz named Jerry Garcia. ", Jerry never said a word, said Mountain Girl. "I'm standing there, it's like 6 in the morning," she recalls. "It wasn't (about) any one person," she says. But much of that time, Jerry was on tour. 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 fight over his intellectual and real property continues. 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 engine had been cannibalized for parts for Furthur II, the "new bus" that Kesey was taking on what fellow Prankster Kenneth Babbs was calling the Grand Furthur Tour to the Rock and Roll Museum in Cleveland, Ohio. "I accepted the position without really asking what it would be, because it was in a lab and I felt at home there. Carolyn is such a big, energetic person and you could see, even at 17, the frustration with the mildness in her family situation (along) with the kind of isolation she had and lack of involvement in rough and tumble life. "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. Ken Kesey's ranch in La Honda, California, where Mountain Girl joined the Pranksters. "It'll ruin my calluses if I do the dishes,' he told me. It takes a monumental person to be with them.". She had intelligence, joie de vivre and a directness that is really remarkable. ", "I never spoke with her about any of it until after the fact," said Sue Swanson. Jerry Garcia My mom raised me, and she protected us from all of that by moving us to rural Oregon. So I faded out of that position. "It was awful," Mountain Girl says. After moving in with Garcia, Mountain Girl became the "den mother," as she puts it, of the Grateful Dead: cooking, cleaning, rustling them out the door on time. She just gave Jerry a lot of slack. Why, I take four or five to go to sleep!". "[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's an old story. Either you were with Kesey or not with Kesey. "Everybody loved it that those guys were back together again," says Rush. Instead, it brought the year and the decade to a dark and violent end. "We were delighted. 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. Once again, Carolyn took her children away to Oregon, to a newly purchased patch of verdant acreage in the Willamette Valley. KLCC General Manager, News Director and other KLCC Staff met with Springfield listeners and dignitaries.KLCC Staff on their way to Newport!Destination #2: NewportWhen: Friday, 4/21/17, 4-6 pmWhere: Newport Performing Arts CenterWhat: KLCC Staff will meet with area listeners to learn more about the Newport community. And then one day, he just kind of up and left. It is to Pleasant Hill that Carolyn Garcia retreated many years ago, during her nearly three decade liaison and marriage to Jerry Garcia - the totemic Captain Trips, guitar-genius/linchpin of the Grateful Dead - when the druggy Deadhead scene got too weird and dangerous. Were trying to live up to a set of ideals and work with folks who understand what Jerry means to people. I fear she did most of the adapting.". But she felt as if he'd scored Kesey something else as well: this plucky 19-year-old from Poughkeepsie. I was hallucinating. When it appeared that he would survive, she and the girls moved in with him in San Rafael and for six months, she had the family life she had always wanted. It was more than just hormones and the passion of new love that kept Mountain Girl and Jerry Garcia together. It was sort of the unfortunate consequences of my actions, my procreative act. He was 53. At times, as she puts it, it was a "horrible story" one that's much starker and scarier than suggested in Wolfe's book. ", One day, when she was up in San Francisco, her attorney got a call. This is absolute magic, she thought. It was a tremendously exhilarating, positive experience about relating to everything around you. ", But she "wasn't happy about the (female stuff). "I got comfortable, as much as possible, on the overloaded bus bunk with my very few possessions," she writes. For MG, which is how her intimates shorten her name, the Pranksters were her college, the University of Fun. The others quickly took note of this dynamic new girl in their midst. Kesey didn't show up, even after the birth. 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 By then she was five months pregnant. None of the various women and children in his life could dispute that. Everybody was attached to it.". "I was very upset," she recalls. ", Her affair with Kesey happened fast. A A. While living together over the next decade, they raised Sunshine along with their two daughters. She had short hair she'd dyed blonde. "I had a personal myth about independence that was getting shattered," she says. "I was like, whoa, that was a really electric moment!" she recalls with a laugh. 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. "She never defined it as shit. Theres so much scrutiny and I just wanna enjoy it. She received her diploma by mail. I understood men at that point." I never socialized with the fan base or anything like that. "Jerry and I had our arguments, but it never led to anything good. A A. "It was fall. "I'll break you this time. Carolyn "went to war with her" and eventually, the gym teacher saw to it that she was expelled only six weeks before graduation. The windows are busted. Things weren't supposed to work out this way. "He wanted to do his work and be off in his head. It was something we did amongst ourselves. On April 3, Marin County Superior Court Judge Michael Dufficy handed down a 10-page decision stating that the one-paragraph agreement drafted by Garcia and Mountain Girl is a valid contract and legally binds the estate. Her function? And his nuts were actually well-educated college students with athletic prowess mostly pretty, athletic people." The joy started to end around 1974, when the Grateful Dead decided to take a break. But, says Gordon "Dass" Adams, Carolyn Garcia's oldest brother, "Jerry was a lousy husband.". It would have been like a ballplayer missing a game. "Jerry decided to spend more time away from the house and in his studio. Nobody can measure up. It kept him very up. But I was anti-cocaine," she says pausing. We were there for 18 months. Those two are the biggest people in every way - big souls, big hearts, big egos, big personalities. I was flabbergasted. Thats also important. I could go in there, but I didn't like it. "They were talking about chord progressions and all this interesting stuff.". She had finally gotten a divorce from George Walker who, she said, "was living on a sailboat in Samoa." 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. "They pressured me to tell them where he was," she says. I decided not to do much. The intellectual climate at Kesey's was free of academic constraints," remembers Carolyn Garcia. A month after the Grateful Dead's summer 1995 tour concluded, Garcia died at a rehabilitation facility in August 1995. "She had the ability to meld her energy with the energy of others to do more than what one person could do by themselves. "He came out of a near death (experience) with this true resurrection feeling. Because Jerry and I honorably tried to do a deal that covered everything, that made me happy. He was sad. "The band got to be very big and very much the nexus and focus of hundreds and thousands of people. "I stayed up in Oregon much longer than I thought I should. When her youngest brother, Don, offered her a ride to California, she took it. "That was my golden destination.". 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. "I just said, 'I have no idea he disappeared.' Theyre super high-end, creative, productive business people. "But Ken by that time was also aging, not too gracefully, and I don't drink. But now that she'd fallen in love with Garcia, Kesey seemed to realize what he'd lost. "I slept with some of the other Pranksters from time to time." "I haven't had another relationship really since then. "He was just the guitar player," she says. Tiffany joined the KLCC News team in 2007. The psychedelic culture the Pranksters had pioneered DayGlo paint, jam bands, LSD had a new name: hippie. 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. "I was mind-boggled and yet, there it was, happening inside my head." He had dumped all of his belongings in the Garcia driveway, including a box with a cat in it. "I was mortified," she says. While life at home was an intellectual paradise, school was quite another matter. ", "MG put up with a lot of shit for a lot of years," says Goldie Rush. "The first time I saw her, she was riding a 175 Honda motorcycle, driving east on La Honda Road. The bare-bones feel of the bar was definitely pulling from the Garcia familys past. She took command of the situation, telling them that they were now the only family she had. I appreciate whats going on with the Alex Grey scene and these shamanistic visionary artists. She had $600 in her pocket and she was 17 years old. Despite the new light in her life, a darkness set in. as well as other partner offers and accept our. It's so sad.". One of their cats was killed. They didn't have kids and it looked like they were having some fun. 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. After an acid trip, it's always desirable to have a cozy warm spot to retreat to and sleep, even outdoors. A natural athlete, Carolyn tried out for girls basketball but ran into trouble with her gym teacher who, she says, "was not my admirer. "The intellectual challenges of being a part of my family were certainly evenly shared by everybody, regardless of sex. We're sitting around the kitchen table in the main farmhouse of the sprawling, rustic ranch where Ken Kesey lived from 1972 until his death in 2001 at age 66. Jerry holds Sunshine Kesey as Mountain Girl looks on at the Heliport, the Grateful Dead's rehearsal space in Sausalito. Snacks, beer, giveaways! Jerry had that fortune or misfortune, that when he falls, he falls hard." We cleaned our grass in an old aluminum colander, and stored the kilo of Acapulco gold in a kitchen cupboard. "He seemed to be a dangerous kind of guy, sort of angular, like a trucker. Because for him, it was a living fluid.". Mountain Girl, second wife of Jerry Garcia, holds her daughter, Sunshine, backstage at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. She sampled ibogaine, a powerful psychoactive being studied by the researchers she worked with. In Carolyn Adams, the Pranksters instantly recognized one of their own. Jerry promised that they would get a house together. His new book is "Easy to Learn, Difficult to Master: Pong, Atari, and the Dawn of the Video Game.". [Laughs.] She never taught me any rules and benched me forever." And these were Cocaine Katies? When her boss found her slumped over her desk the next morning, he fired her. The Bus had been abandoned in a muddy, mossy swale behind the Kesey compound for three years. Snacks, live music, wine, beer & giveaways! Kesey had just been sentenced to six months on a work farm for marijuana possession, and the Pranksters were two days away from staging their biggest Acid Test yet. Its a place for people to get together and still be able to connect with Jerry. It's the price the individual pays for the overall benefit of the planet. Jerry is dead. "I didn't want to compete for attention," admits Mountain Girl. "I'm so glad to see you!" It was difficult, but it was worth it," says Carolyn Garcia. Two years later, she got the dreaded call: Garcia had died of a heart attack at a drug-treatment facility. ", And so Mountain Girl became a handmaiden to genius, a term she calls "horrible, but true." They ran a bar in San Francisco. "They were a gang of brutes who beat up each other for fun," she says with a smile, "but they were nice to me. The decision on Holistic Industries as its official cultivation and distribution collaborator was up to the Garcia Family his daughters, Trixie Garcia, Annabelle Garcia, Sunshine Kesey and Heather Katz and Tiff Garcia's estate (Jerry's brother who passed away in 2017). 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. Same with Jerry's two daughters too (I suppose Sunshine Kesey for that matter too), I'm so interested in learning what it was like having to essentially share their dad with the rest of the world. Tibetan monks sang in strange, low tones. "Ken was upset that I hooked up with Jerry," she says. She decided to take the wheel again. "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. It hadn't been running for a very long time. She reads on: The car is lurching and leaping up the mountain road with its hairpins and overhanging trees, shrieking around the blind curves and cliffs. "The co-dependence book was real big in our house," laughs Annabelle Garcia, who inherited her father's fey sense of humor. His pedal steel and a chair the only furniture. "Garcia's Ex-Wife to Get $1.25 Million: 'Mountain Girl' had sued star's estate". From the Merry Pranksters to the Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia's widow opens up about what the age of free love was really like. The cleanliness of life which people around him discouraged pretty quickly. I watched MG and Jerry connect. Rock Scully's girlfriend of the time, Valerie Ann Steinbrecher, who still is called "Tangerine," remembers watching Carolyn Adams and an unbearded Jerry Garcia literally fall in love on the spot: "The first time I saw Mountain Girl was at this gig at S.F. Mountain Girl (Carolyn Elizabeth Garcia) with her three daughters, Sunshine Kesey,(daughter of Ken Kesey), Theresa Adams "Trixie" Garcia, Annabelle Walker Garcia. ", Flush with cash, she bought a white Honda 50 scooter and took to riding up and down the coast. Its very small scale; its just a nod to her range of influence, and how many people idolize her. Then came the Summer of Love. Even back in those pre-women's liberation days, Carolyn Adams was an in-your-face challenge for any male. 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. "That hating is a quick step away from death - that going through your life being resentful and hateful and nasty about others is going to destroy your life. Meals got planned; bathrooms were cleaned. Someone had alerted the police that America's Most Wanted Acid Preacher was up on the roof getting high with a girl. "I could hear his voice and somebody else's voice," she tells me. Complete independence. "We didn't have the education that modern America has now to help us talk about our roles. In 1980, on New Year's Eve, they got married by a Buddhist monk backstage at a Dead concert. It's a familiar story from a revelatory point of view: her own. But from then on, Mountain Girl and Captain Trips were a pair. She'd hitched a ride out west with her older brother, Don, determined to leave square old Poughkeepsie far in the rearview. People were just sleeping on the street in their shorts in the San Francisco fog, and getting terribly chilled. As far as I know, it went boom! 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