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US CA: Local Poet Keeps Kesey Legacy Alive

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URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n1391/a04.html
Newshawk: Herb
Pubdate: Mon, 16 Oct 2006
Source: San Mateo County Times, The (CA)
Copyright: 2006 ANG Newspapers
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Website: http://www.sanmateocountytimes.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/392
Author: Julia Scott, Staff Writer

LOCAL POET KEEPS KESEY LEGACY ALIVE

LA HONDA -- The redwood trees surrounding Ken Kesey's old house seem strangely peaceful for all they've been through.

Few signs remain of the Merry Pranksters' camp in the woods, their 1960s LSD parties and sound experiments immortalized by Tom Wolfe in "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test."

A blue splash of paint on a tree trunk is the last vestige of the Pranksters' forest-wide paint job, once a Day-Glo cathedral of pink, blue and green.

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