
The Hermit (Anthony Dean Wells), a member of Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters, during the group’s LSD-fueled Acid Test Graduation party in San Francisco, 1966. Like Davy and the Romantics more than a century before, 1960s counterculture experimenters sought intellectual and spiritual enlightenment through hallucinogens.
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