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Tom Wolfe. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1968.
The world chronicled
by Wolfe, of Ken Kesey, the Merry Pranksters, the Hippy movement, the
Grateful Dead, and Kool-Aid laced with LSD, directly precedes Wavy Gravy’s move to Hog Farm where the spirit of Haight-Ashbury
became somewhat transformed into agrarian reformation—without losing
its psychedelic dimension.
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HOG FARM
Hog Farm began as a communal pig farm in California in 1966
but it moved to New Mexico, near Taos. Hugh Romney, known as the comic
Wavy Gravy, a veteran of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters and their
psychedelic school bus, served as leader and guru. By 1969, Hog Farmers
gave their attention to aiding freaked-out youngsters, raising money
for relief efforts, and bringing their message to college students. As
the Yale
Daily News reported in February, 1969, Romney and friends entertained
with “huge group games” trying to get the audience to understand
that “we are not our brother’s keeper, we are our brothers.” The
they repeated their hippie ideal a schools, hospitals, SDS meetings: “May
all beings be peaceful!”
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