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The second bus is labeled "Further" on the front and "Furthur" on the back. It is not called Furthur 2, and is not meant as a replica, although confusion between the two buses is intentional. The bus was created to coincide with the publication of Kesey's memoirs about the 1964 trip, entitled The Further Inquiry (ISBN 0670831743). [6] [7] [8]
The bus was also featured in Tom Wolfe's 1968 book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. [ 4 ] In Summer of 2014, [ 3 ] Zane Kesey, son of Ken, took a replica of Furthur on the first major trip since Ken took the bus to Europe in 1999, on a 15,000 mile tour [ 5 ] of the United States, stopping at music festivals and other events.
Ken Elton Kesey (/ ˈ k iː z iː /; September 17, 1935 – November 10, 2001) was an American novelist, essayist and countercultural figure. He considered himself a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s.
Ken Kesey and driver Neal Cassady roll through NYC in 1964 on Further, an old school bus that George Walker advised using instead of cars for the Merry Pranksters’ transcontinental shenanigans ...
Ken Kesey's Merry Band of Pranksters' 1960s hippie-bus Furthur is a 1939 International Harvester school bus purchased by author Ken Kesey in 1964 to carry his " Merry Band of Pranksters " cross-country, filming their counterculture adventures as they went.
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 ...
The creamery was owned by Chuck Kesey, brother of author Ken Kesey. The event was held in a parking lot at the site of what would become the Oregon Country Fair west of Eugene. At the time, it was ...
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]