The Ken Babbs Interview Set III

​Early Acid Heads ​When Kesey went to jail in 1967, it was right at the beginning of the year. 67 was the Summer of Love. We were all still in the Bay Area, but things were changing by then. The word was out, the publicity was in, about San Francisco. It was attracting more and more people. The flower children were followed quickly by the sharks. ​It was not the kind of place we wanted to be around anymore. We wanted to get away, and a lot of the early acid heads did the same thing. They went under the asphalt back down into the earth and they flocked into Northern California and Oregon. ​All the Pranksters came up here to Oregon, and we had a communal scene out there at the Kesey Farm while he was in jail. It had a barn and a pump and a septic tank, so we just set up housekeeping there. That summer we were buying 50-pound bags of rice, beans, and flour, eating tortillas, and growing vegetables. There were those types of communes all over Eugene. As time went on, we branched out and found our own places.