Carolyn Garcia

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Carolyn Garcia (* May 6, 1946 in Poughkeepsie , New York , USA as Carolyn Elizabeth Adams ), was known in the 1960s as Mountain Girl and Carolyn Adams, one of the leading figures of the Merry Pranksters , is a writer and board member of the Rex Foundation and advisor / participant in the Marijuana Policy Project and the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies of the United States.

Living with the Merry Pranksters and the Dead

Carolyn Garcia grew up in Poughkeepsie as a child of a Unitarian family and was herself a member of the Liberal Religious Youth (LRY). In the early 1960s, after high school , she moved to Palo Alto , California with her older brother Don . There she worked in a biological laboratory. Through Neal Cassady , known as "Cowboy Neal" , she met Ken Kesey in 1965 in La Honda , California, where she soon belonged to the inner circle of the Merry Pranksters and was high in the hierarchy. At the same time, she started a liaison with Kesey, with whom she has a daughter.

Grateful Dead , the house band of the Merry Prankster events, is said to have dedicated the song Here Comes Sunshine to the child, as the child was called Sunshine. The fact that the song was only performed in 1973 speaks against it.

While Kesey fled the police to Mexico because of drug possession, Carolyn Garcia had an affair with another prankster named George Walker, whom she married in 1966. They separated two years later before divorcing in 1978.

In 1981 she married Jerry Garcia , front man of the Grateful Dead. They had two daughters together before. She had been friends with Jerry Garcia since his time in Haight Ashbury , and in some cases also had a relationship. Overlapping her marriage to George Walker, she lived with Jerry Garcia from 1967 to 1975 and had two daughters with him (* 1970, * 1974). At the time, she and the band banned harder injectable drugs, although she did allow marijuana and light drugs like LSD. Her energetic manner also brought order to Ashbury Commune.

They settled in Stinson Beach before Jerry Garcia began an affair with his future wife, Deborah Koons. Carolyn and Jerry Garcia divorced in early 1994 but stayed in touch. Jerry Garcia died in 1995 and Carolyn Garcia bequeathed a large part of the fortune. However, this was doubted by his last wife, Deborah, who tried to prevent this by suing Garcia's insanity. A court awarded Carolyn Garcia her portion of the estate.

Act

In 1977 she published the book Primo Plant: Growing Sinsemilla Marijuana with Bookpeople. She was also on the 1972 book Garcia: The Rolling Stone Interview by Charles Reich and Jann Wenner; Plus a Stoned Sunday Rap with Jerry, Charles and Mountain Girl (Straight Arrow Books) by Charles Reich and Jann Wenner. The book was reissued in 2003 under the title Garcia: A Signpost To New Space . Some of the interviews were used for the 1975 book The Hashish Club: An Anthology Of Drug Literature, Vol. 2: The Psychedelic Era from Huxley To Lennon by Peter Owen.

On the album "Untying The Not" from "String Cheese Incident" she sang along with the song Mountain Girl . On the Grateful Dead album Europe '72 it is highlighted in the credits. She was also involved in the 1991 book One More Saturday Night: Reflections With The Grateful Dead, Dead Family and Deadheads by Sandy Troy. Photographs of her were used in Joel Selvin's 1992 book Monterey Pop .

In Tom Wolfe's work The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test , she played a major part alongside Ken Kesey and Ken Babbs. Their lives and work are also portrayed in books about the Deads. B. Garcia: An American Life , American Odyssey. The Legendary Journey of Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead or A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of members
  2. ↑ Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / blogs.myspace.com  
  3. ↑ Wolfe, Tom. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. New York 1999. pp. 130f., P. 187.
  4. ↑ Wolfe, Tom. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. New York 1999. p. 167.
  5. ↑ Wolfe, Tom. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. New York 1999. p. 199.
  6. ↑ Dodd, David. The Annotated "Here Comes Sunshine"
  7. ↑ Wolfe, Tom. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. New York 1999. pp. 130f., P. 237.
  8. ↑ Jackson, Blair. Garcia: An american life. London 2000.
  9. ↑ Scully, Rock. American Odyssey. The Legendary Journey of Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead. New York 2005. pp. 87, p. 149, p. 284.
  10. ↑ Doyle, Jim. Garcia's Ex-Wife To Get $ 1.25 Million: 'Mountain Girl' had sued star's estate. San Francisco Chronicle . October 15, 2008. S. A21.
  11. ↑ Ingram, Erik. Grateful Dead star's death leads to battle where it's. . . GARCIA VS. GARCIA. San Francisco Chronicle. December 12, 1996 p. A23.
personal data
SURNAME Garcia, Carolyn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mountain girl; Adams, Carolyn; Adams, Carolyn Elizabeth (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American prankster and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Poughkeepsie , New York , USA