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Sign for the Acid Test on November 27, 1965, by Ken Kesey, from the National Museum of American History, collection item #1992.0413.01. 1965. 27 November; Soquel, California: The first Acid Test was a party at Ken Babbs' house on 27 November 1965, although Babbs recalls it as being on Halloween night.
The New Journalism literary style is seen to have elicited either fascination or incredulity by its audience. While The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test was not the original standard for New Journalism, it is the most-often cited work of that genre. Wolfe's descriptions and accounts of the adventures of Kesey and his cohort were influential on the ...
The Pump House Gang was published on the same day in 1968 as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Wolfe's story about the LSD-fueled adventures of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. [3] They were Wolfe's first books since The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby in 1965 which, like The Pump House Gang, was a collection of Wolfe's essays.
Kesey mainly kept to his home life in Pleasant Hill, preferring to make artistic contributions on the Internet [52] or holding ritualistic revivals in the spirit of the Acid Test. In the Grateful Dead DVD The Closing of Winterland (2003) documenting the New Year's 1978/1979 concert at the Winterland Arena in San Francisco, Kesey is featured in ...
Ken Babbs was born January 14, 1936, and raised in Mentor, Ohio. [citation needed] He attended the Case Institute of Technology where he briefly studied engineering for two years on a basketball scholarship, before transferring to Miami University, from which he graduated magna cum laude with a degree in English literature in 1958.
November 27: Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters hold the first "Acid Test" at Soquel, California. [251] November 27: Up to 35,000 anti-war protesters march in front of the White House. November 30: Unsafe at Any Speed: Activist attorney Ralph Nader's wake-up call concerning automotive safety is published and fuels the modern Consumer Movement.
In 2015, Lee Quarnstrom appeared at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center in Venice, California to read from his memoir and at the Bookshop Santa Cruz as part of a 50th anniversary celebration of the Prankster's first Acid Test. Quanstrom died in La Habra, California, on September 29, 2021, at the age of 81. [5]
Owsley's association with Ken Kesey and the Grateful Dead is described in Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test (1968). Stanley's incarceration is lamented in Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971) as one of the many signs of the death of the 1960s. [77]