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The Merry Pranksters were followers of American author Ken Kesey.Kesey and the Merry Pranksters lived communally at Kesey's homes in California and Oregon, and are noted for the sociological significance of a lengthy road trip they took in the summer of 1964, traveling across the United States in a psychedelic painted school bus called Furthur, organizing parties, and giving out LSD. [1]
Magic Trip is a 2011 American documentary film directed by Alison Ellwood and Alex Gibney, about Ken Kesey, Neal Cassady, and the Merry Pranksters. [1] The documentary uses the 16 mm color footage shot by Kesey and the Merry Pranksters during their 1964 cross-country bus trip in the Furthur bus. The hyperkinetic Cassady is frequently seen ...
Revelers at an Acid Test staged by the Merry Pranksters. George Walker used his trust fund to bulk-buy LSD for some of these multi-media events, at which the hallucinogen was served in Kool-Aid.
Paul M. Foster (November 7, 1934 – June 23, 2003) [1] was a Merry Prankster best known for illustrating the book Kesey's Garage Sale. He was a founding member of Wavy Gravy 's Hog Farm commune . Foster was a mathematical genius and became a computer programmer "in the days of wooden transistors" as he would say.
As a member of The Merry Pranksters, Quarnstrom got on the bus named Furthur — so named for its destination. The bus was a converted school bus, painted in a wild array of psychedelic design.
Two of the show's cast, Wolf and Chabert, will reunite for the first time in A Merry Scottish Christmas, an upcoming Hallmark Christmas movie that will debut during the network's Countdown to ...
The name "Acid Test" was coined by Kesey, after the term "acid test" used by gold miners in the 1850s.He began throwing parties at his farm at La Honda, California. [2] The Merry Pranksters were central to organizing the Acid Tests, including Pranksters such as Lee Quarnstrom and Neal Cassady.
Kristoffer Polaha and Bethany Joy Lenz star in first ever movie with Biltmore Estate as the setting.