"Amid a stack of old books in an antique store in Utah sat an edge-worn journal filled with handwritten spiritual musings and psychedelic drawings. "Whose journal was this?" I wondered. The answer, as I would learn, linked the journal to legendary 1960s San Francisco counterculture group Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters. The group, which included Grateful Dead associates and author Neal Cassady, is best known for evangelizing LSD on a cross-country road trip in 1964."
"I turned the cover to find a note from "Lee Anne" to someone named Rodger: "May this journal bring you many hours of happy reflection." Rodger had filled the following pages with fountain pen writings and surreal watercolors. One of his earliest entries: "I will be like a violent beautiful man of the West bearing a great sack of precious jewels.""
A traveler investigating a road-trip homicide found an edge-worn journal in a Utah antique store. The journal connected to Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters, a 1960s San Francisco counterculture group known for evangelizing LSD during a 1964 cross-country trip. The find occurred in Panguitch at Smokin' Hot Antiques housed in an old firehouse. The journal bore a note from "Lee Anne" to Rodger and pages filled by Rodger with fountain-pen writings and surreal watercolors. Entries include poetic, drug-tinged imagery and declarations of identity. The store owner said the journal came from the estate of a woman described as a hoarder.
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