PLEASANT HILL, Ore. -- When Ken Kesey was kicked loose after spending the 1967 Summer of Love in jail for a marijuana bust, ... chronicled in Tom Wolfe's "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test." ...

In The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, the journalist broke free of his contrarian clichés to illuminate the origins of 1960s ...

The acid-fueled, hippie-run bus of ‘Electric Kool-Aid’ fame has emerged from our psychedelic legends and is back on the road, helmed by Kesey’s son Zane.

GRANTS PASS, Ore. – The family of writer Ken Kesey is reviving plans to restore his original psychedelic bus in time for the 50th anniversary of its passengers’ LSD-laced trip across America.

It almost didn’t happen. That night, Ken Kesey and his friends the Merry Pranksters held an event called the Acid Test Graduation, which was originally supposed to feature the Dead.As the band ...

Restoring Kesey's Famed 'Acid Test' School Bus Four years after Ken Kesey's death, a restaurateur in Los Angeles has stepped forward in a serious bid to restore the author's famed bus "Further ...

Column: Taking another ride with Ken Kesey, Tom Wolfe and a bunch of Merry Pranksters in ‘Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test’ Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook; ...

Novelist Ken Kesey, who penned “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” and his compatriots the Merry Band of Pranksters didn’t have a clue how to operate a 16-millimeter movie camera or a Nagra ...

ACID DAD: Ken Kesey and his son Zane. IMAGE: www.clydekeller.com Well…in 1997 Kesey fobbed off his 1947 bus on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, where it was parked between John Lennon's Rolls ...

Ken Kesey, 66, the author of the ... "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test." The trip, and later colorful events in Mr. Kesey's life, were made possible by the success of his first novel.

This July 17, 2001 file photo shows author Ken Kesey beside the original "Furthur" bus, made famous in Tom Wolfe's 1968 book "The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test," on his farm in Pleasant Hill, Ore.

extravaganza, ”The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. ... Nontheless, it has a cohesion and substance not found in ”Ken Kesey`s Garage Sale,” an unfortunate conglomeration published in 1973.