She was about to become the unlikely teenage matriarch for the counterculture's most celebrated influencers, the Merry Pranksters, who gave her a new name: Mountain Girl. mixer. As someone with an artistic background and skill set, to what extent do you like to get involved in different aesthetic decisions relative to that venue or any of your familys collaborative projects? 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. Sunshine was about two or three months old and she was in this little basket. Mountain Girl, Sunshine Kesey, Trixie Garcia, and Annabelle Garcia #Garcia75th : Jay Blakesberg Photography For the Acid Test at San Francisco State, the Pranksters set up in the gym while Kesey sat in the broadcast booth of the college radio station and taunted the authorities. Learn how and when to remove this template message, Mountain Girl: Her tale begins in Hyde Park, "Mountain Girl's heartbreaking memoir: An icon of the Sixties opens up about Jerry Garcia, Ken Kesey, and what the age of free love was really like", Women's Visionary Congress speaker biographies, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carolyn_Garcia&oldid=1135994138, This page was last edited on 28 January 2023, at 03:21. It kept him very up. The familys latest endeavor, in association with Holistic Industries, is the Garcia Hand Picked cannabis brand, which follows partnerships with Keen footwear and Tessemaes organic sauces. What she didn't realize, until Neal had peeled off the road and started driving the wrong way down a railroad track, was that he was none other than Neal Cassady, the inspiration for Jack Kerouac's 1967 Beat classic "On the Road.". "It took the edge off me, to be carrying a kid," she says. They were a team. Again, it was time to extricate herself and rescue her children. "They're great together. It's got little mottos written all over it." The farm hasn't changed much. We also partnered with Tessemaes, which is an eco-conscious salad dressing company. As the '80s approached, the whole Dead zeitgeist was getting way out of control. "And I was like, 'Oh, my God!' The Altamont festival, meant to be a sort of "Woodstock West," was organized in their apartment. And his nuts were actually well-educated college students with athletic prowess mostly pretty, athletic people." "I was a total tomboy. It happened in the summer of 1964 at St. Michael's Caf in Palo Alto, California. By then she was five months pregnant. ", When I ask her how she felt about the name, she tells me she didn't like it because she didn't choose it. Jerry was married with a daughter of his own, but they had moved back to Palo Alto without him. Rock Scully's girlfriend of the time, Valerie Ann Steinbrecher, who still is called "Tangerine," remembers watching Carolyn Adams and an unbearded Jerry Garcia literally fall in love on the spot: "The first time I saw Mountain Girl was at this gig at S.F. A buxom, big-boned woman wearing green velvet pull-on pants, a shapeless black wool sweater and a voluminously floppy, long black coat, Mountain Girl is a force of nature - difficult to ignore when she's under sail. Jerry Garcia exclaimed. Their pad had become a hub for the burgeoning scene around the Dead's extended family of dealers and musicians and psychedelic poster artists. When Thompson and the Hells Angels showed up for parties, Mountain Girl was soon giving them rides on the back of their own Harleys. No Result . It was before the age of security gates, and all sorts of bizarre hangers-on started planting themselves in the Garcia parking area. Sunshine Kesey, who grew up in the Garcia home, and Garcia's manager, Steve Parish, attended as well. "He knew it was going to cause trouble." "You could come stay with me," he said. Tracks Festival Fever K.C. It seems like theres often a charitable component. "You have to be a pretty big person to hold your own with Kesey and Garcia and their milieu. I also enjoy smoking weed around people who I dig. And then there was a former Philadelphia assistant district attorney who drove West, determined to "move in with Jerry.". another Prankster, Mike Hagen, asked her. I walked over to look, amazed. It was difficult, but it was worth it," says Carolyn Garcia. Obviously, were not huge, but it would be nice to do something like that one day. "You could come stay with me," he said. He left a third of his estate to his wife of three months, Deborah Koons Garcia, but had a herd of creditors in his wake (including Mountain Girl) and the value of his estate in dispute. After leaving Kesey in Mexico, where he was hiding out to avoid US drug charges, Mountain Girl returned to San Francisco with a newborn and an uncertain future. As a result, the prevailing narrative of Mountain Girl in the popular imagination reads like a comic-book male fantasy: saucy, sexy, sassy, "swinging into every situation like on a vine," as Wolfe wrote, "like Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.". Sunshine Kesey and Annabel Garcia live nearby, not far from their mom. He's not going to come back. "[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. But I went for it. A large mandala is painted on the living-room floor. God, I was so thrilled. And Faye, his wife, was struggling with the whole thing. His eyes smiled. Carolyn Mountain Girl Garcia, Sunshine Kesey, Trixie Garcia and Annabelle Garcia, I sincerely believe that the more people that we can expose to Jerrys playing and the kind of person that he was, the better we can make the world. ", Carolyn was born on May 6, 1946. This is absolute magic, she thought. [Laughs.]. Six months later, Garcia had some dental work and got involved with pain relievers. It was all so incredible. "I love that bus! I jumped in to make a few dinners and keep the pantry stocked. Browse 85 sunshine kesey stock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. But she turned down their offer to become a member. I still enjoy making art as part of my range of hobbies and skills. ", But she "wasn't happy about the (female stuff). The joy started to end around 1974, when the Grateful Dead decided to take a break. Garcia was married with a daughter of his own, but his wife had moved back to Palo Alto without him. 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. The first time any of Kesey's literary mob ever saw Carolyn Adams, late of Hyde Park, N.Y., she was seated in a Palo Alto cafe, reading a book when Prankster and Beat icon Neal Cassady and a handsome young blond guy with a Beatle haircut named Bradley picked her up and invited her for a ride. When the Summer of Love devolved into a plague of bad drug trips and homeless teenagers, Mountain Girl and Garcia set out to restore new life to the countercultural movement to which they had helped give birth. None. "Well," she asked him, "what are we going to do?". ", "She is an authentic personality," says Dennis McNally, former public relations manager for the Grateful Dead and now publicist for Grateful Dead Productions. The guy teaching in the room next to her was a 21-year-old named Jerry Garcia. It would prove to be a pivotal moment in the history of the counterculture. The Dead was scheduled as the final act, but the band never took the stage. so did Carolyn Garcia, with Sunshine, her baby daughter with . Mountain Girl would ride Rush's bike over a rutted short cut to the hospital and sit by Jerry's bed, willing him to live. Somehow, however, Garcia and Mountain Girl established a life, albeit one that was quite unconventional by Leave It To Beaver standards. As it was, he always knew he could come home and there would always be a place for him, no matter how weird it got out there. At Jerry's funeral, Annabelle, his older daughter with Mountain Girl, said, "He was a great musician and a shitty father." She affected black turtlenecked sweaters and carried books of poetry. Jerry was never with another woman who matched him as elegantly as she did, with her kind of energy and intelligence. "She ended up being responsible (if that concept is even thinkable in this context) for mixing the multiple mutable audio loops connecting every part of the space with every other. Those two are the biggest people in every way - big souls, big hearts, big egos, big personalities. Jerry was very jealous. I know shes been working on her memoir. By the time she walked into the Dead's kitchen, Mountain Girl had attained iconic status, although it was not her way to pay any attention to it. She'd hitched a ride out west with her older brother, Don, determined to leave square old Poughkeepsie far in the rearview. But there was a part of Jerry's and my relationship that was unshatterable by any means that's persisted until today. "I was taught every plant name as we passed it on a hike," she says. She was caught napping each time. "We didn't have the education that modern America has now to help us talk about our roles. Thats a whole thing that wasnt even acceptable in the fine art world like 20 years ago. "I suppose I would have been pretty good pickings for a cult," she laughs. That played itself out for a while. He came and went for the next year." Garcia had indeed gone to live with a slender, intense and dark New York City film student named Deborah Koons whom he had met at a show in 1973 and who had hitched a ride back to New York City on the Dead's bus. I painted that bus! Suddenly, as Kesey and Mountain Girl were sharing the joint, they found themselves surrounded by a phalanx of cops. As the Dead began putting out records and touring, Mountain Girl, who had a child to raise, began feeling the strain. That was the world. "I slept with some of the other Pranksters from time to time." ", "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. "I felt bad when it was taken down into the woods and abandoned. (December 12, 1996). In early 1964, she met Neal Cassady, who introduced her to countercultural figure and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest author Ken Kesey. "They gave you enough so that you were transported to the geometrical universe where everything was in squares and triangles," she says. [Laughs.]. All there was was Synanon, and I wasn't going to call them!" I was just on board to do whatever.". The mythology of the time, and the dynamic young woman at the heart of it, was written mostly by men Wolfe, Kesey, Allen Ginsberg, Hunter S. Thompson, Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady all of whom fashioned themselves as the hypermasculine heroes of their own stories. The tiny kitchen downstairs was the crossroads, we jammed in there for morning cornflakes and conversation. Show your support for only $2/month, Carlos Santana Plots 1001 Rainbows North American Tour, Reaching New Heights: SunSquabis Kevin Donohue Talks Arise, New Music and Debuting it Live, Earl Scruggs Music Festival Drops Artist Lineup: Emmylou Harris, Greensky Bluegrass, Infamous Stringdusters and More, Listen: Relix Releases The Relix Sessions with Soule Monde on Digital Platforms, Beale Street Music Festival Delivers Lineup: Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, Gary Clark Jr., The Roots and More, Watch Now: Portugal. "She is the real deal.". He stood there eyeing her up her long dark hair, her big bright smile the latest Alice to have fallen through the rabbit hole. A framed photo of Kesey juggling apples hangs on a bright red wall. Jerry Garcia exclaimed. ", It was August 31, 1965, and everyone piled into Furthur, the painted school bus that would soon become one of the most renowned icons of the Sixties. It was like opting to be an alien. "I could hear his voice and somebody else's voice," she tells me. "We were delighted. Cassady had told Kesey that he met this girl who was a little wild, "like she was kind of a mountain girl," says Kesey. At 710, Mountain Girl imposed order like a drill sergeant. Since coming back to the States, he'd been embroiled in legal battles over his marijuana charges. Says Kesey: "There was never a question that she would not have the baby, gosh, no. The court case turned into a high-profile free-for-all, with Koons Garcia's side claiming that Jerry had stopped loving Carolyn years before, that their marriage on New Year's Eve, 1981, was a sham and had been for tax purposes only and that in circumventing the legal system, their agreement was basically not worth the paper it was written on. The bus is rusted and broken down. My sister Anabelle has a popular Instagram handle, and she loves sharing her art. Once you've had a little kid, it's very difficult to focus on being a P.A. "There were always girls coming out of the woodwork," says Mountain Girl. View All Result . He put the mojo on me. She was still dropping acid before the shows, albeit in smaller doses. Jerry Garcia "It's one of those things you do in your early adulthood. ", And so Mountain Girl became a handmaiden to genius, a term she calls "horrible, but true." "Jerry and I had our arguments, but it never led to anything good. Ingram, Erik. "It was written all over his face. But I was a little envious of the glamour queens, you know. It was definitely a mild psychedelic experience with a lot of long, complex dreams, mostly about ancient ruined cities - Mayan - and jaguars. But basically, she was assigned to the traditional women's stuff of keeping a home, albeit a very large and unruly one. "He was not happy to see me," she says. "She's imposing all right," says David Gans, the proto-Deadhead historian who hosts "Dead to the World" on KPFA-FM radio. "You could tell the number of people was way exceeding the ability of anybody to deal with it." He stole her white Alfa Romeo and drove it into a ditch; he papered the town of Stinson Beach with bad checks and told people that she would pay his bills and he let the air out of the tires of her VW van. She took them East. For an arduous month in December 1996 and part of January 1997, Carolyn Garcia was living on the Bolinas Lagoon at Stinson Beach with her old friend Caroline "Goldie" Rush and commuting to the Marin County Court House in San Rafael. What the hell just happened? I kind of nodded out. After an acid trip, it's always desirable to have a cozy warm spot to retreat to and sleep, even outdoors. Adams Garcia, a large woman with long, graying hair and no makeup, a former Merry Prankster who had two daughters with Jerry Garcia and another named Sunshine with Ken Kesey, undoubtedly. The others quickly took note of this dynamic new girl in their midst. So youve gotta stay grounded, stay humble, be realistic. What really happened, Garcia says, is that she marched into a film studio in San Rafael and handed Deborah Koons a one-way ticket back to New York which, Koons Garcia told the press, "Jerry and I cashed it in.". But from then on, Mountain Girl and Captain Trips were a pair. A beautiful woman. I didn't know how to ask for help. Like any other rock and roller, Jerry Garcia was under tremendous pressure to fool around. The mythology of the time, and the dynamic young woman at the heart of it, was written mostly by men Wolfe, Kesey, Allen Ginsberg, Hunter S. Thompson, Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady all of whom. And Mountain Girl wasn't sure how she felt about it. As far as I know, it went boom! "I would go over from time to time and hang out," she says. "I had a little "spill,' " she laughs, "and got really high. I fear she did most of the adapting.". For years, it felt like it was just this mournful periodthere was this malaise and everyone was just so bummed out. "I was totally devastated," says Carolyn, now 76. I could go in there, but I didn't like it. "She had the ability to meld her energy with the energy of others to do more than what one person could do by themselves. Jerry had that fortune or misfortune, that when he falls, he falls hard." Any sign of a trap and I'm moving. Adams, who had been a bus monitor in elementary school, had a soft spot for the rides, especially a vintage 1939 International Harvester like this one. For Carolyn Adams, it was her second brush with genius. In the course of a few months, some 100,000 young people from all over the world descended on Haight-Ashbury to get high and make love and protest the war. One must brace against the turns to avoid sliding into the driver. Adams was "willowy, with long, black hair, a bright smile and sharp mind," as Prankster Ken Babbs describes her in his new memoir. "I haven't had another relationship really since then. "Ooh, man," she told him, "there's something. Can you share a status update on that? Sunshine Kesey sits with her Grandmother, Geneva Jolley. Bradley clutches my arm, massaging my knee and rubbing my ankle and chuckling to himself. Sometimes the fanaticism is a little too extreme, and gets in the way. I absolutely love sativasI like getting stoned and then doing gardening work and stuff like that. None of the various women and children in his life could dispute that. The engine had been cannibalized for parts for Furthur II, the "new bus" that Kesey was taking on what fellow Prankster Kenneth Babbs was calling the Grand Furthur Tour to the Rock and Roll Museum in Cleveland, Ohio. Annabelle was in pre-school and Sunshine was in school. It's a piece of my childhood. In 1966, Kesey was still officially a fugitive. It was meaningful to me because its a way for us to participate in the scene. "I wanted to stay with my Prankster buddies. I got a huge jolt, and I had a very vivid image of us being together. ("I was taking just enough to get my job done," she says.) Over the years it became a bustling hub for friends and family, including Mountain Girl, who moved nearby in the 1980s. I just had to go with it. She got a lot more happiness than anyone else in Grateful Dead Land.". "Everybody was really depressed. Our room at the top of the stairs was small, a comforting retreat, with a huge flag covering one wall, and a window looking out over the weedy garden. Theyre like musicians; they just need assistance. (There is an apocryphal tale of Mountain Girl throwing Deborah Koons through a sliding glass door at Bob Weir's recording studio, which both women hotly deny both to the press and in private. The week after the Trips Festival, on January 31, 1966, Furthur was found abandoned on a cliffside road, high above the crashing shore of Eureka. That was my big goal as a child. When she came to the one on the door that read "Nothing Lasts," she stopped in her tracks. "Neal basically dropped me off there like fresh meat or something," she says. It is to Pleasant Hill that Carolyn Garcia retreated many years ago, during her nearly three decade liaison and marriage to Jerry Garcia - the totemic Captain Trips, guitar-genius/linchpin of the Grateful Dead - when the druggy Deadhead scene got too weird and dangerous. I know they had a big love with one another. Theres a simplicity with the no-nonsense, real-deal, getto-the-good-music feel of the space. She has no regrets. I just didn't want to compete anymore. I think I went for a lot of stuff. A long, strange trip led Mountain Girl to Kesey's final home. Through her window she saw legions of young people with long hair and colorful pants, smoking, dancing, playing guitar. It seems like a logical fit. Courtesy Sunshine Kesey After moving in with Garcia, Mountain Girl became the "den mother," as she puts it, of the Grateful Dead: cooking, cleaning, rustling them out the door on time. So when a guy named Bradley and his fast-talking friend Neal approached her at the caf and offered her a lift, she decided to see where the adventure would lead. A Hells Angel, she later learned, had stabbed a gun-wielding concertgoer to death at the foot of the stage. "He'd fill it with music, drugs, girlfriends, whatever. Mountain Girl, second wife of Jerry Garcia, holds her daughter, Sunshine, backstage at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. He was 53. Ken (Kesey) could have made yard art out of it. ", "Jerry and MG were absolutely a blessing to hang out around," says McIntire. Trixie Garcia, her youngest, has come up from Oakland. Be the first to know about the Grateful Dead's exclusive limited-edition releases, breaking news on the band, community events, and so much more. Her eyes well with tears. Mountain Girl walked around it, peering in the windows. I am quite certain that it was a comfort to him as well as to me. In 1980, on New Year's Eve, they got married by a Buddhist monk backstage at a Dead concert. He's dead. It was such a special thing," she says. It was completely nuts. 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. He put the mojo on me. "Of course, I was totally in denial about this. "The first time I saw her, she was riding a 175 Honda motorcycle, driving east on La Honda Road. And her first with a chauvinistic rock 'n' roll culture that relegated the band's "old ladies" to caretaker status. They spent all the time in Jerry's room being in love. That was his happiest space. Release Calendar Top 250 Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Movie News India Movie Spotlight. And I was like: What a bunch of baloney. The loss of his father was absolutely devastating for him as a little boy. Not a subscriber? The concert had been meant to revive the spirit of a generation. All Carolyn Garcia ever wanted was a family with her children and Jerry Garcia. For Carolyn Adams, encountering Kesey and the Pranksters was like coming home, as if she'd been looking for people like them all of her life. "That left a giant hole in his personality he was constantly trying to fill," she says. When I came to, my boss was shaking me by the shoulder. They were monumental. With steely determination, she continued her way across a wide expanse of unmown grass with Kesey's black spaniel Happy yapping at her heels. But unbeknownst to the guys, she was taking notes. We were very, very happy with each other. Theyre super high-end, creative, productive business people. They're like a couple of grumpy bears who just woke up in the spring. "As the new attraction, I was getting a lot of interest from the unattached males," Adams recalls. 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. ", "I never spoke with her about any of it until after the fact," said Sue Swanson. So its important that we all have been able to transform it into a time of reflection and celebration, which has helped to bring our community back together over time. "She didn't move into another woman's house," says Tangerine. Her function? And boy, do I run from that stuff. "I knew he could pay it and that he would get total control of his own business and that I wouldn't ever have to know anything about anything. I'm not a great anti-abortionist, but it never came up.". The psychedelic culture the Pranksters had pioneered DayGlo paint, jam bands, LSD had a new name: hippie. "He was aware of all this extra stuff going on in the music," she says, "which is one of the reasons it had so much power to move people. [Laughs.] It was a form of synesthesia: little notes with different little cartoon beings, each with its own personality. If you were behaving badly, she'd tell you that, too. I would go home and make some orange juice and he'd show back up again, sleep for a couple of days and recharge. Her maternal grandfather was a missionary in Allahabad, India, where her mother grew up. Dean Budnick on December 2, 2020 Carolyn "Mountain Girl" Garcia, Sunshine Kesey, Trixie Garcia and Annabelle Garcia "I sincerely believe that the more people that we can expose to Jerry's. The tiny sink was a hazard zone. Kesey didn't show up, even after the birth. She eschewed the fashion pursuits of the time. She decided to take the wheel again. I don't know if she was threatened by me. The gray-haired woman, who bears a striking resemblance to Jerry, is his 45-year-old daughter, Trixie. We're sitting around the kitchen table in the main farmhouse of the sprawling, rustic ranch where Ken Kesey lived from 1972 until his death in 2001 at age 66. At times, the emotional intensity is too much and it makes things difficult. And now, The Bus was retired. Two years later, she got the dreaded call: Garcia had died of a heart attack at a drug-treatment facility. She realigns her shoulders and runs her large hands through a luxuriant mop of silver and black hair. "When you're in a car driving across the plains of Kansas from one gig to the next and you're lucky enough to be in the same car with Jerry and MG, the details they would notice about everything, the joy they would take in life, would sweep you along. Its not necessarily great business talk, but my ability to detach is also crucial. We call them the "bears.' She also says that she started putting on weight "out of self-defense. They had not lived together for years, although once in a while they got together with the children during a holiday or when the Dead were in town playing a concert. "Nobody can measure up," Mountain Girl says of Jerry. "Everybody loved it that those guys were back together again," says Rush. "Crazy," she recalls. She was amazingly beautiful. Growing up, I went to the high school where 420 was coined [San Rafael High School], so theres that. "I haven't had another relationship really since then. 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