All of Jerrys kids are artists in one way or another. It was all so incredible. For Carolyn Adams, the trip to wonderland started when a famously Mad Hatter offered her a ride. he says to me, looking out, holding out some grimy bennies in his palm. Looming out of the deep shadows across the yard was an enormous painted bus, dim and bulbous and mysterious as Moby Dick. "I went down for a long time." It was such a special thing," she says. It was sort of the unfortunate consequences of my actions, my procreative act. "It was too much travel." My attention would get distracted and I would miss a cue and Pigpen (McKernan, the Dead's late organist) would be up there pointing to his microphone and be really mad at me. Obviously, were not huge, but it would be nice to do something like that one day. 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. Sunshine Kesey, who grew up in the Garcia home, and Garcia's manager, Steve Parish, attended as well. "I was totally devastated," she says. But I went for it. "That left a giant hole in his personality he was constantly trying to fill," she says. "I could hear his voice and somebody else's voice," she tells me. Were real people. She was turning a corner so fast, she was leaning down, close to parallel with the pavement on this windy, twisty mountain road, her long, black hair flying out behind her, lookin' good. "After he had left and moved in with Deborah. It's a bright, crisp morning on a leafy street in Eugene, Oregon. ", All along Garcia understood that she had elected to keep the home fires burning and give her genius husband plenty of "space. She had finally gotten a divorce from George Walker who, she said, "was living on a sailboat in Samoa." She had $600 in her pocket and she was 17 years old. she realized she needed to make a change. Were trying to live up to a set of ideals and work with folks who understand what Jerry means to people. It was the summer of 1963. Tiffany joined the KLCC News team in 2007. mixer. But, she emphasizes, the gestalt of the Dead, that the whole was so much greater than the parts, kept her a believer. ", "I never met a woman with quite as much machismo as this girl had," marvels Scully. ", The joy and harmony in the Garcia family was challenged further in 1975, shortly after the birth of the Garcias' second daughter, Theresa, nicknamed "Trixie" by Kit Candaleria, one of the Dead's roadies. What other considerations are important to you when selecting a partner? I appreciate whats going on with the Alex Grey scene and these shamanistic visionary artists. "I felt bad when it was taken down into the woods and abandoned. I look carefully and ask for a quarter of one. The moment she hugged him, she felt a flash. In my case, with a powerful talent like Jerry and this tremendous culture-changing thing he'd found to do, it was a tough place to try to carry on a relationship. ", "Bill is a wonderful man," says Sunshine Kesey, who, with her halo of white-blond curls resembles her father, Ken Kesey. "She is the real deal.". But Mountain Girl had been around long enough to know that, in the words painted on the Pranksters' bus, Nothing Lasts. I absolutely love sativasI like getting stoned and then doing gardening work and stuff like that. Three others died at Altamont that day, including a fan who took too much LSD and drowned in an irrigation ditch. She received her diploma by mail. It was cozy enough, and I felt perfectly safe. As most suspected, it was yet another prank. "She never defined it as shit. Somehow she and Garcia remained intertwined through it all. At Jerry's funeral, Annabelle, his older daughter with Mountain Girl, said, "He was a great musician and a shitty father." ", "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. The tiny kitchen downstairs was the crossroads, we jammed in there for morning cornflakes and conversation. 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. Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go. Annabelle remembers encountering a junkie shooting up on their doorstep. "It was awful," Mountain Girl says. I think I did the best I could with a tough situation. "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. Garcia and Adams separated in 1975 after he began a relationship with filmmaker Deborah Koons. Their pad had become a hub for the burgeoning scene around the Dead's extended family of dealers and musicians and psychedelic poster artists. They were moving around, and I go, 'Oh, isn't that cute?'" "He came out of a near death (experience) with this true resurrection feeling. She was the plaintiff in a court case seeking the balance of the $5 million settlement arrived at in a contract that she and Garcia had drafted as their divorce agreement in 1993. He played to her all night. [2] Shortly after she was expelled from high school, she traveled to Palo Alto, California in 1963 with her older brother, Don. But at the same time, there was a slightly Victorian tinge to the whole thing. ", The Pranksters, ever dutiful, came to his aid. We tried to keep the mess to a minimum. Their pad had become a hub for the burgeoning scene around the Dead's extended family of dealers and musicians and psychedelic poster artists. Mountain Girl and Garcia divorced in 1993. ", "Jerry and MG were absolutely a blessing to hang out around," says McIntire. Adams soon lost her apartment and boyfriend as well. Through her window she saw legions of young people with long hair and colorful pants, smoking, dancing, playing guitar. he asked me. I think that two people hiding out in the same family would have been even more difficult. The Bus, with "Furthur" written like a title across the top. "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. One thing that he did not want was any disclosure. 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. That was my big goal as a child. Beatniks and folk musicians were flocking to the area, and Adams fell in love with the music scene. Jerry and I were head over heels in love, and radiant with happiness. She saw Joan Baez at Kepler's, a local bookstore, and started taking guitar lessons at Dana Morgan's Music Store. I think everybody had a crush on her.". And she wanted to help that greatness.". 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. Two years later, she got the dreaded call: Garcia had died of a heart attack at a drug-treatment facility. She named her baby girl Sunshine Kesey. Neither of us knew the language of sorting out your personal relationships," Carolyn says. 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). In her unpublished memoir, she writes: Jerry and I were head over heels in love, and radiant with happiness. Countless companies vied for such a coveted collaboration. They wound up at Kesey's spread at 5 in the morning. Weve met lots of people and toured lots of different places, and thought about many different ways to structure this. 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. It's a clear, cold afternoon in Pleasant Hill, Oregon, and Mountain Girl, dressed in a black parka and jeans, is sharing a joint with her three grown daughters. "But Ken by that time was also aging, not too gracefully, and I don't drink. "The moment we came back, Jerry was at my door to visit and within a month he was asking to move back in," says Mountain Girl. Special thanks to: Trixie Garcia, Annabelle Garcia, Tiff Garcia, Heather Katz, Sunshine Kesey, Carolyn Adams Garcia, Keelin Garcia, Manasha Garcia, Coran Capshaw, Jonathan Blaufarb and Vivek Sridharan at Councel, LLP, Elliot Groffman, Paul Gutman, Ira Friedman and Kelly Corson at Carroll, Guido and Groffman, LLP, Mark Pinkus, Nicholas Meriwether, Jeffrey Norman, David Lemieux, Steve Parish . Late one night, alone in the Stanford lab, she decided to try some other interesting stuff. She was pregnant by Kesey, 11 years her senior, who was married with kids. "I was no longer in charge of my own destiny.". They just fell in love. "I was more than seven months pregnant and I didn't have shit. Caravans of Deadheads turned Jerry and Mountain Girl into godheads. "We felt guilty at having called for this." 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. Kesey didn't show up, even after the birth. I say that after talking to so many Deadheads, who have testified to me that the Grateful Dead changed their lives.. There are a lot of people like that. ", At the same time, she says, "it was joyous.". that was it for him. Jerry promised that they would get a house together. But for Mountain Girl, it lives forever, an emblem of everything her generation believed in, and all that they achieved. She affected black turtlenecked sweaters and carried books of poetry. But when choosing partners, products and people that are gonna go out there and represent Jerry, its important to pick the right people. ", Her affair with Kesey happened fast. And they had the smallest room in the house at that point. There wasn't a whole lot I could do to go chasing around worrying to see what had happened to Jerry. "It was fall. ", 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. I used to do large paintings but storage got to be an issue. In 1966, Kesey was still officially a fugitive. But, says Gordon "Dass" Adams, Carolyn Garcia's oldest brother, "Jerry was a lousy husband.". I painted that bus! "Things changed," she says. "I didn't want any whinging. We cleaned our grass in an old aluminum colander, and stored the kilo of Acapulco gold in a kitchen cupboard. It was all over the newspapers, and it was a huge story, and we felt guilty at having called for this." It's so sad.". 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. 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