Merry pranksters

Ken Babbs, also known as the Intrepid Traveler, stands next to Gretchen Fetchin, the Slime Queen, whose original name was Paula Sundsten. She holds her baby, Mouse. They stand with other Merry...

Ken Babbs, Merry Pranksters.

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.

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In short, there were probably a lot of reasons in 1966 why Mountain Girl, now a new mom, would want to leave Kesey, but the fact that she did so for an ev...

The Merry Pranksters were a group of friends and family associated with Ken Kesey. Many lived together communally in a house La Honda, CA, and several traveled together across the country in Furthur in 1964. By varying accounts, the original Pranksters included Ken “Intrepid Traveler” Babbs Carolyn “Mountain Girl” Adams Ron “Hassler” Bevirt Page “Zealot” […]

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 […]

As a student, Ken Kesey took part in LSD experiments funded by the CIA.

These were wild and crazy guys. The Merry Pranksters were a group of people who formed around American author Ken Kesey in 1964 and sometimes lived communally at his homes in Californ…

The merry pranksters Neal Cassady and Paula Sundsten (aka Gretchen Fetchin).