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Can You Pass the Acid Test ?? In this HubPage We Explore the Psychedelic Posters and Ephemera from Events Known As the Acid Tests Which Were Brought To You by Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters.

This week, Taschen is publishing a new, photographic edition of Tom Wolfe’s 1968 classic The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, for which he embedded with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters for their transcontinental (and very psychotropically enhanced) bus tour. Printed in a limited run of 1,968 copies, the new edition features never-before-seen facsimile reproductions of Wolfe’s manuscript pages; excerpts […]

Anne Richardson writes: If we disown every Oregonian who makes a mark in the world, what does that tell our children?

In its popular culture, though, the United States clung to traditional standards. The nation’s most watched television show was a Western about a widowed father and his three grown sons in 1860s Ne…

Fifty years ago Santa Cruz hosted a landmark moment in counterculture history

Ken Kesey-One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Ken Kesey was an American novelist, essayist, and countercultural figure.

In 1964, Ken Kesey, the famed author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, set off on a legendary cross-country road trip to the New York World’s Fair.