B.C.'s Merry Pranksters revive a famous 50-year-old bus trip
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Above is a photo taken on August 26 at Millbrook, New York, at the Hitchcock Estate that was loaned to Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert in 1964 and 1965.
The occasion is the 50th anniversary of author Ken Kesey's famous Merry Pranksters Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test bus tour across the U.S. from west to east.
The original sister bus visited Millbrook in the summer of 1964. Zane Kesey, Ken's son, is celebrating his father by retracing the journey by bus.
The bulk of the money was crowd-funded. A donation of $200 entered a person's name in a lottery to join six or seven other lucky winners for a one-week stage of the trip.
The photo shows Zane Kesey with his leg held up by Carey Linde and Shannon Bens of Vancouver, Michelle and Colby O'Neill of Denman Island, and a fellow named Michael from Toronto. Sorry, his last name isn't available.
Linde had his own anniversary. In 1964 he arrived at Millbrook with a bag of dried mushrooms from UBC's faculty of agriculture cow fields.
A biochemist interested in mushrooms at the University of Michigan, a Dr. Smith, confirmed to Linde that his mushrooms contained psycilocybn, the first report of such mushrooms north of Oaxaca, Mexico.
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