A scientist, storyteller, and visionary long before “organic” and “probiotic” were household words, kesey helped launch the natural foods movement more than six decades ago. Novelist and counterculture icon ken kesey died on november 10th in eugene, oregon Kesey’s death came just two weeks after he underwent surgery to remove nearly half of his. November 11, 2001 ken kesey, the pied piper of the psychedelic era, who was best known as the author of the novel ”one flew over the cuckoo’s nest,” died yesterday in a hospital in eugene, ore., said his wife, faye. 6 at his home in eugene, surrounded by family members Kesey helped launch the natural foods movement more than six decades ago
He and his wife, sue, who preceded him in death this past august, built springfield creamery. Ken kesey was an american writer who was a prominent figure of the countercultural revolution and the hippie movement of the 1960s For over fifty years, he remained the unofficial “keeper of the culture” and personally.
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