They called themselves the Merry Pranksters, appealing lunatics and mavericks organized by novelist Ken Kesey, who wrote “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and was a man of limitless energy and ...

If you’re an old-head hippie, still fighting the good fight against the establishment, then you know all about Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters and their electric Kool-Aid bus trip across America.

PLEASANT HILL, Ore. -- It has been 50 years since the late author Ken Kesey and his pals, the Merry Pranksters, took their psychedelic bus ride across America to visit the New York World's Fair. They ...

Award-winning novelist Robert Stone hung out for many years with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. He recounts the group's cross-country road... Writer Robert Stone Relives Counterculture Years The ...

Ken Kesey. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. The Merry Pranksters. The Electric Koolaid Acid Test. Allen Ginsberg. Neal Cassady. Timothy Leary. These are the names that conjure up the 1960’s – for ...

Writer and journalist Tom Wolfe gestures Dec. 10, 2013, during the presentation of his book “Bloody Miami” at La Pedrera building in Barcelona. (Lluis Gene/AFP) For many, this is back to school time ...

And so, I will tell you that “Acid Test” holds up, a wild ride with a bunch of folks who traveled across the country in a 1939 International Harvester school bus they called “Further,” which served as ...

For many, this is back to school time and it reminds me of a story a friend told about the long-ago day he moved into his dorm room at a downstate university. It took him a while to put clothes in ...