By the time she walked into the Dead's kitchen, Mountain Girl had attained iconic status, although it was not her way to pay any attention to it. Mountain Girl sued to get the money owned her. Mountain Girl and Garcia retreated to a secluded home in Stinson Beach, California, to raise their daughters. It was sort of the unfortunate consequences of my actions, my procreative act. The mythology of the time, and the dynamic young woman at the heart of it, was written mostly by men Wolfe, Kesey, Allen Ginsberg, Hunter S. Thompson, Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady all of whom fashioned themselves as the hypermasculine heroes of their own stories. "I haven't had another relationship really since then. It's a bright, crisp morning on a leafy street in Eugene, Oregon. The engine had been cannibalized for parts for Furthur II, the "new bus" that Kesey was taking on what fellow Prankster Kenneth Babbs was calling the Grand Furthur Tour to the Rock and Roll Museum in Cleveland, Ohio. It was a form of synesthesia: little notes with different little cartoon beings, each with its own personality. He played to her all night. "The Haight-Ashbury era," as Tom Wolfe later wrote, "began that weekend.". It was more than just hormones and the passion of new love that kept Mountain Girl and Jerry Garcia together. Carolyn Elizabeth Adams was born on May 6, 1946 in Poughkeepsie, New York, where she also grew up. She studied journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia and has worked in a variety of media including television and daily print news. "She was Jerry's girlfriend. Read more Discourse stories here. Chips and Twinkies. I was very much in love with Jerry's music and supported it, but our personal relationship was sort of outside that. "Someone got us all tickets and we dressed up to go. They wound up at Kesey's spread at 5 in the morning. I think I went for a lot of stuff. I was into hip-hopI went out and forged my own life totally anonymously. She uttered a huge sigh. "I'll break you this time. There are a lot of people like that. It was the summer of 1963. "I couldn't freak freely and stay up all night and run up and down the ladders," she says. The previously unreleased complete performance is mastered from John Cutler's original soundboard recordings. I'm not a great anti-abortionist, but it never came up.". After his death, Koons Garcia stopped the checks. "Bill serves her. KLCC Staff visits Springfield 2-17-17KLCC Celebrates 50 years with a series of visits to our outlying communities. Inside was Kesey's suicide note: "Ocean, ocean, I'll beat you in the end," it read. The tiny kitchen downstairs was the crossroads, we jammed in there for morning cornflakes and conversation. ", When I ask her how she felt about the name, she tells me she didn't like it because she didn't choose it. One of their cats was killed. We often thought of ourselves as a karass. The moment she hugged him, she felt a flash. But at the same time, there was a slightly Victorian tinge to the whole thing. As the '80s approached, the whole Dead zeitgeist was getting way out of control. ", At the same time, she says, "it was joyous.". She arrived in California, like many at the time, eager to bloom. A few days later, Adams rode her white Honda 50 back to La Honda for Kesey's party, where she accepted his holy sacrament: LSD. They helped organize the Altamont festival, a sort of "Woodstock West." The free concert, scheduled for December 6, 1969, would include performances by the Dead, Santana, Jefferson Airplane, and the Rolling Stones. Be the first to know about the Grateful Dead's exclusive limited-edition releases, breaking news on the band, community events, and so much more. Over the years it became a bustling hub for friends and family, including Mountain Girl, who moved nearby in the 1980s. He never did respond well to pressure of any kind. So I faded out of that position. ", The Pranksters, ever dutiful, came to his aid. Jerry and Carolyn were married by a Jewish friend who was also a Tibetan monk in a ceremony missed by most of the band members. She was the plaintiff in a court case seeking the balance of the $5 million settlement arrived at in a contract that she and Garcia had drafted as their divorce agreement in 1993. ", Mountain Girl and Jerry divorced in 1993. "I began to realize the dangers of celebrity that had to do with the Grateful Dead attracting a lot of people to themselves who were unconventional. Although Garcia and Adams reconciled after the dissolution of his relationship with Koons in 1977, they stopped cohabiting a year later (save for occasional holiday reunions) due to the guitarist's heroin and cocaine addictions. I know he had asked for space, as he put it earlier in the year, and I said, "Sure, whatever you need.' "I had a personal myth about independence that was getting shattered," she says. "They're great together. Along with the stories she told me over hours of interviews, it's a monumental lost chapter of American literature a funny, vivid, heartbreaking account of an indelible time and place, as told by the woman at the center of the wildness. A framed photo of Kesey juggling apples hangs on a bright red wall. "You could come stay with me," he said. I was floored. She was very bright, very fast. At home in Oregon, where she's down to shrooming twice a year. ", "Jerry had told me what he wanted me to do," says Jon McIntire. Obviously, were not huge, but it would be nice to do something like that one day. "We felt guilty at having called for this." Nobody can measure up. But after spending a night in jail, she soon had another reason to weep. Im really proud of what weve done with the space at Garcias at The Capitol [Theatre] and the whole concept behind it. "Well," he replied, "you must be Mountain Girl. Mountain Girl believes he was still suffering from the trauma of seeing his father, Joe, drown on a fishing trip when he was 6. At Jerry's funeral, Annabelle, his older daughter with Mountain Girl, said, "He was a great musician and a shitty father." So Ive gotten much smaller. "They were a gang of brutes who beat up each other for fun," she says with a smile, "but they were nice to me. It had been only two years since she'd met Kesey and taken up with the Pranksters, but it felt like a lifetime. Garcia and Adams separated in 1975 after he began a relationship with filmmaker Deborah Koons. "I was maintaining our home. Since coming back to the States, he'd been embroiled in legal battles over his marijuana charges. Adams was offered a job in the Stanford cafeteria, but drawing on her knowledge of science she hustled one in the organic-chemistry lab instead. He returned to the United States and, just nights after being sentenced to six months in the San Mateo County Jail, he was arrested again, this time with Adams, while smoking marijuana on the rooftop of Stewart Brand's home on Telegraph Hill, San Francisco. No Result . "I'm not weeping with remorse.". In my case, with a powerful talent like Jerry and this tremendous culture-changing thing he'd found to do, it was a tough place to try to carry on a relationship. Tidak ada hasil . KLCCs Tiffany Eckert speaks to Sunshine Kesey, daughter of Ken Kesey, about their family life, Keseys wrestling start at Springfield High School and his indelible mark on a generation. Thirty years ago, in the dawning of psychedelia, Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, that tatterdemalion pre-hippie/post-Beat caravansary of performers, musicians, poets, magicians, gypsies, tramps and fools crammed into their gaily-painted 1939 International-Harvester, and drove their way into the American consciousness on the rollicking prose of Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. It hadn't been running for a very long time. Its very small scale; its just a nod to her range of influence, and how many people idolize her. Mountain Girl was equally defiant about their arrest. Had a quick mind - quick on the pickup with puns, jokes and comments. We did the best we could. The personal relationships within the band and their own personal relationships shattered under tremendous pressure. I think that two people hiding out in the same family would have been even more difficult. You can't do drugs when you're in a coma.". Mountain Girl, eight months pregnant, hitchhiked to get groceries. That would have been a sin. What the hell is going on? Those two are the biggest people in every way - big souls, big hearts, big egos, big personalities. ", Kesey was, she says, "attractive and very engaging. However out of step she had felt among the kids back home, she now found her place among the generation's leading artists, writers, and radicals: Timothy Leary ("I thought he was kind of an actor he was busy playing a role"), Albert Hoffmann, the chemist who discovered LSD ("a saint and a mystic, and a gay man, just a sweetheart"), Hunter S. Thompson ("an important guy for the country"). Written in red paint, the front bumper proclaimed "CAUTION WEIRD LOAD. She had finally gotten a divorce from George Walker who, she said, "was living on a sailboat in Samoa." "I was a strong suit," she says. "She was fascinated with Jerry and the Dead's trip. Theyre like musicians; they just need assistance. I just didn't want to compete anymore. She named her baby girl Sunshine Kesey. As a result, the prevailing narrative of Mountain Girl in the popular imagination reads like a comic-book male fantasy: saucy, sexy, sassy, "swinging into every situation like on a vine," as Wolfe wrote, "like Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.". Mountain Girl's girlfriends had an idea where he was - living with Deborah Koons, a filmmaker he'd met at a concert in New York in 1973 with whom he'd stayed in contact. that was it for him. "He was crazy and he'd been to too many Dead shows," she says. ", With Cassady behind the wheel, the Pranksters rode the bus down to Los Angeles for a series of Acid Tests. "The intellectual challenges of being a part of my family were certainly evenly shared by everybody, regardless of sex. If you were behaving badly, she'd tell you that, too. The acid tests were a series of psychedelic parties held in, KLCC's Tiffany Eckert sits down with Carolyn "Mountain Girl" Garcia and George "Hardly Visible" Walker to talk about their experiences as Merry Pranksters, A New Ken Kesey Mural to be Painted on the Odd Fellows Building in Springfield, Acid Test Anniversary Reunites Merry Pranksters In Eugene, Merry Pranksters Swap Stories; Extended Interview With Mountain Girl and George Walker. She affected black turtlenecked sweaters and carried books of poetry. "I wanted to stay on the bus," she says. he says to me, looking out, holding out some grimy bennies in his palm. They spent all the time in Jerry's room being in love. at Red Rocks Garcia's 75th Bday. "She came and stayed with me," says Goldie Rush, who was living in Greenbrae at the time, right behind the hospital. ", The joy and harmony in the Garcia family was challenged further in 1975, shortly after the birth of the Garcias' second daughter, Theresa, nicknamed "Trixie" by Kit Candaleria, one of the Dead's roadies. At the police station, speaking with a reporter, Kesey suggested that he was being persecuted for his role in the counterculture. Mountain Girl believes he was still suffering from the trauma of seeing his father, Joe, drown on a fishing trip when he was 6. She was judge and jury in those days. Self-reliant as always, MG constructed her own little home in the woods: I had built a small shelter in a grove of trees by the creek. Sometimes the fanaticism is a little too extreme, and gets in the way. But his antic exit was no joke to the broke, homeless, pregnant teenager he had unceremoniously left behind. He was 53. That was the world. "Crazy," she recalls. Mountain Girl and Jerry Garcia were the stuff of hippie fairy tales, who dressed alike and thought alike and spoke as one person. Courtesy Sunshine Kesey After moving in with Garcia, Mountain Girl became the "den mother," as she puts it, of the Grateful Dead: cooking, cleaning, rustling them out the door on time. But she wasn't looking for another man to step in. Today, Carolyn Adams Walker Garcia is 51 years old. Annabelle was in pre-school and Sunshine was in school. "I was very upset," she recalls. She was pregnant by Kesey, 11 years her senior, who was married with kids. Her legend leaps off the pages of books, in the annals of the Grateful Dead in her role as Jerry Garcia's consort and then wife for nearly 30 years and in the transcripts of a high profile trial last winter which pitted her against Garcia's widow, Deborah Koons Garcia, in a Marin County courtroom. "She is the real deal.". "It worked for me to have a different identity," she says. She was living near Stanford, hired by then-department head Carl Djerassi to work the night shift at the mass spectrometer in the university's organic chemistry lab. Cassady, she learned, had come across her at the caf while he was making a drug run to pick up the amphetamine pills Kesey needed to stay alert. "We were trying to do an end run on the legal system and get the ball around to the other side of the court without having to engage a whole lot of people in the process. Following Jerry Garcia's death, Carolyn Garcia was involved in litigation to obtain payments as per their divorce settlement agreement, ultimately agreeing to a $1,250,000 settlement to avoid further legal costs. Sunshine Becker (born Sunshine Flower Garcia on July 1, 1972) is an American singer who performed backing vocals for the band Furthur. "I always wanted to be a writer," she tells me with a sly smile. "I could hear his voice and somebody else's voice," she tells me. The concert had been meant to revive the spirit of a generation. "Nobody can measure up," Mountain Girl says of Jerry. [5] Kesey was arrested for marijuana possession in La Honda, in 1965 and fled to Mexico. ", Garcia knew that as Jerry's wife and mother of two of his children, she was entitled to half of his estate under California law. "He was aware of all this extra stuff going on in the music," she says, "which is one of the reasons it had so much power to move people. Her eyes well with tears. It was really hard and frightening for her. Adams was 19, dark-haired, big-eyed, and broken-hearted, consoling herself over a double espresso and ice cream after her boyfriend had abruptly split town. It's a clear, cold afternoon in Pleasant Hill, Oregon, and Mountain Girl, dressed in a black parka and jeans, is sharing a joint with her three grown daughters. It takes a monumental person to be with them.". It was this concentration on the domestic side which certainly was not intentional on my part. Mountain Girl and Jerry moved into an apartment of their own, and she got pregnant again. "There were a lot of them around," she says. Le yaourt gratuit n'a pas dur longtemps.Chuck et Sue Kesey s'attendaient ce qu'environ 5. Mountain Girl (Carolyn Elizabeth Garcia) with her three daughters, Sunshine Kesey,(daughter of Ken Kesey), Theresa Adams "Trixie" Garcia, Annabelle Walker Garcia. "Jerry and I had a fortunate relationship. "I went down for a long time." When her boss found her slumped over her desk the next morning, he fired her. I don't feel bad about it at all. Daydreaming took me out the windows and into fresh, limitless landscapes and away from that tension of never quite fitting in, of the feeling of being odd and too smart.". In 2020, as a board member of the Edelic Center for Ethnobotanical Service, a nonprofit advocacy group, she helped legalize magic mushrooms for therapeutic use in Oregon. The band is comprised of former members Bob Weir (guitar), Mickey Hart (drums) and Bill Kreutzmann (drums) and new additions John Mayer (guitar), Oteil Burbrdige (bass/drums) and Jeff Chimenti. Left to moulder in the weeds. The hood was open. With Sunshine slung to her hip, Mountain Girl fell into communal living. I look at it another way as well. "There was a star they could look at who had to hide out. so did Carolyn Garcia, with Sunshine, her baby daughter with . Movies. "I went down for a long time." Jerry Garcia exclaimed. A A. If you were stupid, she'd tell you so. Happy the dog, her head splotched with a huge drop of blue paint, flushed a covey of peacocks which rose above the trees and the parked bus, scattering rainbow feathers and squawking bloody murder. She craved acceptance but couldn't seem to fit in. "I'm standing there, it's like 6 in the morning," she recalls. When the Summer of Love devolved into a plague of bad drug trips and homeless teenagers, Mountain Girl and Garcia set out to restore new life to the countercultural movement to which they had helped give birth. His life as a fugitive seemed to be taking a toll on him, along with his seemingly unlimited intake of speed. In 1959, Kesey had been a volunteer in a C.I.A.-sponsored LSD experiment at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Menlo Park. This is a 3 CD set of music from the two October 28, 1987 shows, featuring the acoustic set from the matinee show and the acoustic and electric sets from the evening show. We are on a rock hurtling through space, and its all amazing. We call them the "bears.' Tiffany Eckert 10 of 15 The Kesey Clan surrounds Geneva Jolley Kesey Family 11 of 15 Springfield's Peter DeFazio at his Congressional Headquarters. They're like a couple of grumpy bears who just woke up in the spring. But they wanted to do something to make things better, to restore new life to the countercultural movement to which they had helped give birth. Says Kesey: "There was never a question that she would not have the baby, gosh, no. They were monumental. I am quite certain that it was a comfort to him as well as to me. She hallucinated "pyramids and parrots and lush jungle vegetation," she says. Compared to what the fans know and want to cultivate, Im no expert. Adams soon lost her apartment and boyfriend as well. Destination #1: SpringfieldWhen: Friday, 2/17/17Where: Washburne Caf, Springfield, ORWhat: KLCC Staff rolled into Springfield in their mobile studio to meet the public and learn more about the community. "I was totally devastated," she says. she says with a big bright grin. I want to be lighting fires with a flint and steel! It is to Pleasant Hill that Carolyn Garcia retreated many years ago, during her nearly three decade liaison and marriage to Jerry Garcia - the totemic Captain Trips, guitar-genius/linchpin of the Grateful Dead - when the druggy Deadhead scene got too weird and dangerous. ", Her parents didn't know she was pregnant, so she was stuck with the Pranksters. Thats also important. But Ive gotten more confident as far as using my creative impulses or intuition to help guide the look and feel of some of the brand licenses and products. No money, hardly any clothes, and no real concept of what was coming. The Days Between is obviously based off a song, and the fans took it over after Jerry died. Their adventures, as immortalized in Tom Wolfe's seminal book "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test," inspired legions of young people eager to break the shackles of the 1950s and embark on a new age of personal freedom. Our writers provide thought-provoking perspectives, informed by analysis, reporting, and expertise. It's sad to see it crumble away. You could feel it. One of her father's progenitors was Dr. Samuel Adams, a physician in General Burgoyne's army during the Revolutionary War. They were moving around, and I go, 'Oh, isn't that cute?'" I want to be a pioneer!" I actually call her and harass her about it pretty often. As Wolfe first described her, she was: "A tall girl, big and beautiful with dark brown hair falling down to her shoulders except that the lower two-thirds of her falling hair looks like a paint brush dipped in cadmium yellow from where she dyed it blond in Mexico.". Countless companies vied for such a coveted collaboration. as well as other partner offers and accept our, Joe Rosenthal/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images. Bob Campbell/San Francisco Chronicle/Getty Images. Surrounded by towering redwoods, the place seemed to be recovering from an epic bender: cars and motorcycles everywhere, the ground littered with assorted detritus. At times, the emotional intensity is too much and it makes things difficult. She wrote about the ride, and reads it to me: Meanwhile, fumbling in his pocket, he produces a handful of pills, and an assortment of newspaper clippings and matches. KLCC General Manager, News Director and other KLCC Staff met with Springfield listeners and dignitaries.KLCC Staff on their way to Newport!Destination #2: NewportWhen: Friday, 4/21/17, 4-6 pmWhere: Newport Performing Arts CenterWhat: KLCC Staff will meet with area listeners to learn more about the Newport community. Jerry and Carolyn Garcia divorced in 1994[1] but remained friends until his death. "It was written all over his face. My sister Anabelle has a popular Instagram handle, and she loves sharing her art. She was born on February 2, 1970 Annabelle is a member of the Garcia Family LLC, of which she has been active from 2009 to date, and the company's goal is to do the best for Annabelle's father's music and visions.She has an older half-sister by the name of Sunshine Kesey, who was born in 1966 Annabelle Garcia's family, husband and children We partnered with Keen to do a line of shoes, and they have been supporting HeadCount through the Vote Love campaign, which is a get-out-the-vote campaign that were also working on. Its part of what I want to share with othersthat whole inner freedom and expansiveness. She and Garcia lived off his $50 a week in gig money. The bassist Phil Lesh considered Mountain Girl "the Prankster Queen," as he wrote in his memoir. by Petrus A. The father of Mountain Girl's baby was now a fugitive. Kesey had just been sentenced to six months on a work farm for marijuana possession, and the Pranksters were two days away from staging their biggest Acid Test yet. She reconnected with Garcia a couple years later after leaving Kesey in Mexico, where he was hiding out to avoid U.S. drug charges, and returning to San Francisco with her daughter Sunshine.. But, she emphasizes, the gestalt of the Dead, that the whole was so much greater than the parts, kept her a believer. She saw Joan Baez at Kepler's, a local bookstore, and started taking guitar lessons at Dana Morgan's Music Store. "He wanted to do his work and be off in his head. she recalls with a laugh. I never socialized with the fan base or anything like that. That was sort of my style, to ask the really tough questions right away.". Until then, she says, she had always considered their relationship to be "buddy-buddy." The windows are busted. I didn't know how to ask for help. ", It was her first glimpse of Furthur, the bus Kesey and the Pranksters had just driven to and from the World's Fair in New York, becoming poster children for the promise and perils of life, liberty, and LSD. Snacks, beer, giveaways! Led by Ken Kesey, the swashbuckling author of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," the communal crew of seekers and misfits road-tripped the USA in Furthur, experimenting with the sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll that would come to define their generation. Soon after they coupled up, Mountain Girl moved with the baby into 710 Ashbury, the Dead's commune in the Haight, coincidentally on the day that Tangerine moved out. ", But she "wasn't happy about the (female stuff). And this is no ordinary late-night, East Bay, marijuana mind game. Three others died at Altamont that day, including a fan who took too much LSD and drowned in an irrigation ditch. And there it was. Jerry was a right person, too, but unfortunately, he was stuck and trapped in a circumstance he didn't want to be in. He was losing me and Sunshine.". With steely determination, she continued her way across a wide expanse of unmown grass with Kesey's black spaniel Happy yapping at her heels. I had no idea what he was doing. . "I had disempowered myself by joining this group," she says. Jerry, I think, fits the Alfred picture as a kind of verbally interesting person, rather than the swashbuckler Kesey was. Read more Discourse stories here. "I didn't witness it," he says carefully, "but I heard from (one of her best friends) that Garcia pursued her with a focus that could not be broken. I decided not to do much. All of Jerrys kids are artists in one way or another. "They were talking about chord progressions and all this interesting stuff.". Instead, she entered into an affair with Ken Kesey, the famed novelist and leader of the Pranksters, with whom she eventually had a daughter. "We didn't have the education that modern America has now to help us talk about our roles. "There were always girls coming out of the woodwork," says Mountain Girl. In a loosely autobiographical screenplay he wrote called "Over the Border," he rhapsodizes about "her big brown eyes made even bigger by the electricity of the warm autumn night with the stars above and her man beside her. ", Jerry never said a word, said Mountain Girl. His pedal steel and a chair the only furniture. "Jerry and I had our arguments, but it never led to anything good. God, I was so thrilled. But she felt as if he'd scored Kesey something else as well: this plucky 19-year-old from Poughkeepsie. ", Cassady's car actually belonged to Kesey, who was living with his Prankster band up at La Honda in the Santa Cruz Mountains. After. Part of that was the elasticity of the relationship and how it could adapt to stuff. She has no regrets. Ratburgers.". Its a place for people to get together and still be able to connect with Jerry. The loss of his father was absolutely devastating for him as a little boy. Jerry didn't really do a lot of maintenance. "He was not happy to see me," she says. Many of the compounds she was analyzing came from the psych department, where novelist Kesey was a volunteer guinea pig, tripping his brains out on the still-legal precursors to lysergic acid diethylamide, aka LSD. And her first with a chauvinistic rock 'n' roll culture that relegated the band's "old ladies" to caretaker status. another Prankster, Mike Hagen, asked her. They just fell in love. He was living in a cheap motel in the beachfront town of Mazatln, conferring with his lawyer and looking jittery, skinny, and paranoid. Finances were cleared up. We cleaned our grass in an old aluminum colander, and stored the kilo of Acapulco gold in a kitchen cupboard. ", One day, when she was up in San Francisco, her attorney got a call. Jerry and I were head over heels in love, and radiant with happiness. "He went with it," she says, "and made sure that I had a place to sleep and food to eat. "It was the end of their chapter," Adams says, "and the beginning of mine." ", All along Garcia understood that she had elected to keep the home fires burning and give her genius husband plenty of "space. It was cozy enough, and I felt perfectly safe. Kesey didn't show up, even after the birth. Getting into the cannabis industry was something I was determined to do. "That was my golden destination.". And perhaps the Prankster thing had gotten a little stale for her at that point.". She was, she recalls, "a beatnik." The police advised Mountain Girl that there was not much she could do about him because he had established some sort of homestead on her property. ", It was August 31, 1965, and everyone piled into Furthur, the painted school bus that would soon become one of the most renowned icons of the Sixties. "His whole thing was to drive to San Francisco, play a gig, go home, go to sleep, get up, have breakfast, drive to San Francisco, play a gig. I mean, yuck! Same with Jerry's two daughters too (I suppose Sunshine Kesey for that matter too), I'm so interested in learning what it was like having to essentially share their dad with the rest of the world. A Hells Angel, she later learned, had stabbed a gun-wielding concertgoer to death at the foot of the stage. "Jerry decided to spend more time away from the house and in his studio. I want to carry a knife! Either you were with Kesey or not with Kesey. The future Mrs. Garcia was taking guitar lessons at Dana Morgan's Music Store in Stanford, California, when she heard Jerry's voice coming from the next room. Mom escaped. Tom Wolfe's New York magazine pieces may have put her on the map, but she says, "I really didn't have an attachment to a personal image. "He came out of a near death (experience) with this true resurrection feeling. The familys latest endeavor, in association with Holistic Industries, is the Garcia Hand Picked cannabis brand, which follows partnerships with Keen footwear and Tessemaes organic sauces. Looming out of the deep shadows across the yard was an enormous painted bus, dim and bulbous and mysterious as Moby Dick. I'll go through with my heels at your hungry ribs.". She'd also just lost her job, and was going broke. It was the honorable thing to do and it should be honored. The real story of Mountain Girl, as I've learned after months of talking to her, is far more complex. The legend crumbled. Her maternal grandfather was a missionary in Allahabad, India, where her mother grew up. After marrying "partly for tax purposes and partly out of a fond flickering of a once-bright romance"[8][1] in late 1981, this arrangement persisted until Garcia entered a diabetic coma in 1986. Jerry decided to spend more time away from the house and in his studio family were certainly shared. 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