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. Theyre like musicians; they just need assistance. She gave birth in the charity ward of a Mexican hospital in May 1966. Part of that was the elasticity of the relationship and how it could adapt to stuff. Annabelle remembers encountering a junkie shooting up on their doorstep. Carolyn "Mountain Girl" Garcia, former wife of late Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia, and her daughter with late author Ken Kesey, Sunshine Kesey, recent. What the hell just happened? Her parents, Ruth and Alfred, prized knowledge over material possessions and she grew up the tomboy little sister of two older brothers whose excellence in academics and athletics challenged and frustrated her. But as the Dead began putting out records, Garcia spent most of the time on tour. She had $600 in her pocket and she was 17 years old. And Faye, his wife, was struggling with the whole thing. "Later MG told me that when she met Jerry," remembers McIntire, "she recognized in him that his music was the stuff of greatness. The hood was open. "Nobody can measure up," Mountain Girl says of Jerry. Then all of a sudden, the older guy's pulling these clippings out of his wallet and he's a Kerouac character. On April 3, Marin County Superior Court Judge Michael Dufficy handed down a 10-page decision stating that the one-paragraph agreement drafted by Garcia and Mountain Girl is a valid contract and legally binds the estate. Before Garcia died of a heart attack in a dry-out facility in Forest Knolls on Aug. 9, 1995, he'd already paid Mountain Girl their agreed-upon $20,883 per month for a period of 18 months. I say that after talking to so many Deadheads, who have testified to me that the Grateful Dead changed their lives.. They didn't have kids and it looked like they were having some fun. Sunshine Kesey, daughter of Mountain Girl and Ken Kesey, also recalls Garcia as an extremely laid-back father figure during the years she and her mother lived with him. "He was just the guitar player," she says. I couldn't believe it. After an acid trip, it's always desirable to have a cozy warm spot to retreat to and sleep, even outdoors. "There were always girls coming out of the woodwork," says Mountain Girl. Her maternal grandfather was a missionary in Allahabad, India, where her mother grew up. They produced two daughters. The concert had been meant to revive the spirit of a generation. Their agrarian entourage includes a quartet of donkeys, a dozen sheep, two dogs (Chiquita, an ancient, deaf Border Collie mix and Penny, an apricot standard poodle) and two cats. "You could come stay with me," he said. Please enjoy this full-length feature from our October/November Issue. And no one defined the scene more than the Dead, whose gigs in the meadow in Golden Gate Park were becoming more and more crowded. "Crazy," she recalls. I mean, yuck! We cleaned our grass in an old aluminum colander, and stored the kilo of Acapulco gold in a kitchen cupboard. I fear she did most of the adapting.". "[5], Cassady took her to La Honda, California, Kesey's base of operations, where she quickly joined the inner circle of Pranksters and became romantically involved with Kesey, having a daughter by him named Sunshine. "Someone got us all tickets and we dressed up to go. It never happened. Their pad had become a hub for the burgeoning scene around the Dead's extended family of dealers and musicians and psychedelic poster artists. It was episodes like these, coupled with Jerry's inconstancy with other women, that precipitated her escape to Oregon, the place where Kesey, Faye, their children, Ken Babbs and a bunch of her Prankster family had settled. Koons Garcia and Weir took a portion of Garcia's ashes to India two weeks ago and spread them . ULASAN. She also says that she started putting on weight "out of self-defense. But Carolyn Garcia says, "nobody seemed to notice me for a second." Kesey seemed weary, a cruise director at the end of a long and tiring voyage. I think I did the best I could with a tough situation. View All Result . But they were reluctant to tell Mountain Girl, lest they hurt her. "I tried not to ask too many questions, because I know how it is. He loved to work. She just gave Jerry a lot of slack. She moved to Europe with a boyfriend for a year but wrote to Garcia. Once you've had a little kid, it's very difficult to focus on being a P.A. ", "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. He had a very bright, engaging repartee going all the time, which I just loved. [9][10], Carolyn Garcia currently sits on the boards of the Rex Foundation and the Furthur Foundation, and is on the advisory board of the Marijuana Policy Project. "I always wanted to be a writer," she tells me with a sly smile. The bassist Phil Lesh considered Mountain Girl "the Prankster Queen," as he wrote in his memoir. "He just disappeared. Two years later, she got the dreaded call: Garcia had died of a heart attack at a drug-treatment facility. "I was totally devastated," she says. A 6-CD box set featuring two complete, previously unreleased performances from the Jerry Garcia Band and Bob Weir & Rob Wasserman recorded September 5th, 1989 in Hartford, CT and September 6th, 1989 in Uniondale, NY. But facing the judge, she was sharp enough to know who they were really after: Kesey. Both of her parents encouraged her interest in the natural world. He loved to engage all sorts of people in all sorts of conversation and brief relationships. That would have been a sin. We tried to keep the mess to a minimum. Other Pranksters went back and forth to America, but without money or means Mountain Girl felt trapped in Mexico. And more and more people were getting admitted to the hospital from bad drug reactions. As the Dead began putting out records and touring, Mountain Girl, who had a child to raise, began feeling the strain. She studied journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia and has worked in a variety of media including television and daily print news. "I didn't want any whinging. 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. The mist was coming through the trees, and Adams made out a large vehicle in the distance, painted like a kaleidoscope. Theyre super high-end, creative, productive business people. "That was just a zap! He put the mojo on me. ", When I ask her how she felt about the name, she tells me she didn't like it because she didn't choose it. Joy and excitement; uncertainty and pain. "[1], In early 1964, she met Neal Cassady, who introduced her to Ken Kesey and his friends, one of whom gave her the name "Mountain Girl" because she was a "little bit wild. Written in red paint, the front bumper proclaimed "CAUTION WEIRD LOAD. "Garcia's Ex-Wife to Get $1.25 Million: 'Mountain Girl' had sued star's estate". "I didn't know what to do. From the affair with Kesey to the agony and ecstasy of her decades with Jerry, Mountain Girl was writing it all down in letters and journal entries. Six months later, Garcia had some dental work and got involved with pain relievers. ", "If you're involved with somebody with a talent like Jerry's, the richness of his gift to everybody was so powerful, you have to give them a lot of latitude to express that gift," she says in retrospect. We're lucky to have geniuses around giving us art." Carolyn "went to war with her" and eventually, the gym teacher saw to it that she was expelled only six weeks before graduation. As most suspected, it was yet another prank. In 2020, as a board member of the Edelic Center for Ethnobotanical Service, a nonprofit advocacy group, she helped legalize magic mushrooms for therapeutic use in Oregon. She had finally gotten a divorce from George Walker who, she said, "was living on a sailboat in Samoa." I did try to run their sound board for a while, but I wasn't good at it. It was cozy enough, and I felt perfectly safe. Jerry was very jealous. "She came and stayed with me," says Goldie Rush, who was living in Greenbrae at the time, right behind the hospital. "That left a giant hole in his personality he was constantly trying to fill," she says. I couldn't understand why I was born a girl. I had a new baby. So youve gotta stay grounded, stay humble, be realistic. It's the price the individual pays for the overall benefit of the planet. "That's the coolest thing I ever saw. It was a minor note, although I suppose it wasn't minor for me at the time because I was young and attractive. She refused to rat her hair or wear makeup. It was warm," she recalls. It was all so incredible. It would prove to be a pivotal moment in the history of the counterculture. "I accepted the position without really asking what it would be, because it was in a lab and I felt at home there. I was floored. I feel like we still have a relationship with the fans and are able to deliver things that delight and encourage more good vibes. "I really would have liked to have gone," she says, "but I didn't have any way to go.". "Cassady was on a speed run, looking for bennies," Garcia remembers. ", Today, 60 years since she took that ride with Neal Cassady, Mountain Girl is still forging her own path. Sunshine Kesey and Annabel Garcia live nearby, not far from their mom. ", David Kushneris a long-time contributor to Rolling Stone. "I was no longer in charge of my own destiny.". She received her diploma by mail. Again, it was time to extricate herself and rescue her children. A few of her friends acknowledge the incident as rumor but refuse to verify it as fact). "I was sitting on the ground, and all of a sudden the redwood needles started to rearrange themselves. Carolyn Elizabeth Garcia (ne Adams; born May 7, 1946), also known as Mountain Girl, is an American Merry Prankster and the former wife of Jerry Garcia, the lead vocalist and guitar player with the American rock band, Grateful Dead . We want to work with folks who bring a very high level of quality and integrity.. Eventually, Kesey and his rag-tag band returned to the States, Mountain Girl and the baby in tow, to produce the final of the Acid Tests, the combination concert-performance-mass LSD trip (often courtesy of Owsley Stanley, who provided the psychedelics and was the money behind the house band, the Grateful Dead). There were people everywhere looking for anything, looking for a place to lie down. Because for him it was a living fluid. The gray-haired woman, who bears a striking resemblance to Jerry, is his 45-year-old daughter, Trixie. Then came the Summer of Love. But she's come out ahead of the game. Inside was Kesey's suicide note: "Ocean, ocean, I'll beat you in the end," it read. Jerry is dead. "I didn't witness it," he says carefully, "but I heard from (one of her best friends) that Garcia pursued her with a focus that could not be broken. 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