Sixties Ideals in a Different World
Ken Kesey lumbers through the door of his house, laughing, talking, harumphing, shaking the persistent Oregon rain from his plaid golfer’s cap. He’s wearing jeans, a fuchsia and yellow tie-dyed T-shirt and, under his work boots, fire engine red socks. Behind him trail Pranksters Zonk, Babbs and Hagen. In the kitchen, Faye is brewing tea.
It could be 1964, when day-glo field marshal Kesey led his psychedelic troops on the cross-country bus trip that both symbolized and heralded the coming counterculture. It could be 1968, when Kesey, fresh out of jail from a marijuana conviction, returned to the family farm, parked the bus aIongside the barn, wired the trees for sound and gathered the Prankster survivors around him.
In revealing interviews, fifty activists of the 1960s counterculture explore how they have integrated socially conscious ideals into their life choices. Featuring conversations with Gloria Steinem, Angela Davis, Tom Hayden, and Arlo Guthrie.
