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Kesey's kitsch a window to the past.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 30-MAY-04 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Kesey's kitsch a window to the past.(Arts & Literature)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Bob Keefer The Register-Guard

In 1967, shortly before he moved to a farm in Pleasant Hill, the already famous Ken Kesey served a six-month jail sentence in California for possession of marijuana.

Kesey had previously guaranteed his place in literary history by writing two novels, "Sometimes a Great Notion" and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Then he moved on from literature to life-as-performance art, painting a bus in Day-Glo colors, naming it "Further" and driving it cross-country with an assortment of Merry Pranksters chronicled in Tom Wolfe's "Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test."

And he got busted for pot. Kesey passed his jail time...



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