⢠Ken Kesey & his wife Norma Faye Haxby, âFaye Keseyâ,  New York City, November 1985. Junior high school sweethearts, the two married in 1956. Though Faye didnât join the Merry Pranksters on the famous 1964 cross country LSD fueled Bus Ride popularized by the âElectric Acid Kool-Aid Test,â  the two remained married till Ken passed away in 2001.  (the films from which  Alex Gibney and Alison Ellswood edited into a semi coherent movie in 2011 âMagic Trip.â)   (photo: Allen Ginsberg)        . ⢠Ken Kesey was an orderly at the Menlo Park Veterans' Hospital Mental Health Facility where both he and Allen volunteered for the MKULtra LSD research program in 1959,  which turned out to be a CIA Mind Control study. Kesey was writing  âOne Flew Over the Cuckooâs Nestâ that year, which drew heavily on his experiences at the hospital. ⢠#kenkesey #merrypranksters #deanmoriarty #ontheroad #jackkerouac #beatgeneration #americana #highaways #poetrycommunity #jackkerouac #literary #literature #fayekesey #magictrip #electricacidkoolaidtest #tomwolfe #oneflewoverthecuckoosnest #gratefuldead #acidtests #mkultra #lsd #magictrip #alexgibney (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6RQRXnBfvk/?igshid=loxl0l0419r