May 19, 2013 - Original Flower Child from the Ken Kesey Magic Bus, aka Stark Naked and Kathy Casano. "Wow!" Ken Kesey in Cuckoo's Nest writes of his sympathies for people who are conveniently labled mentally ill by the system. You mean she was angry? They wanted to discover what might happen to themselves and the country when the East experienced what had been uncovered in the West a hundred years after the Gold Rush: the liberating qualities of LSD." We had one time when my brother, who was a big crab boat fisherman, came and visitedJohn came and there was drinking and Holden decided he was going to get into it alsoI got up in the night and saw that Holden had puked. I called the police. I said Id be right there. Cathy Casamo * Beauty Witch/Stark Naked The cartoon, now . It kept getting crazier and I just kept getting angrier. At a rehearsal or jam session I was playing at I remember Katrina was thereI was very good in those days and had already been to the Big Apple and recorded etcI was pretty good, if I do say so myselfbut unstable emotionallyor very over the top emotionallywhateverwe were playing a tune and it was completely wrong somehow and I yelled out and made some kind of commentand then realized what a fool I had made of myself and tears spurted from meand lo and behold who was there to comfort but Katrinashe said to me"thats alrightyour finedont worry etcone of the most beautiful women I had ever seen or met and she was suddenly aware of me and knew and heard me. Years later, I heard that Cathy was living with a painter up in Northern California. And then I heard she passed away. It was now 6 pm. Theyre getting rid of the evidence until she heals. Whaaaaat? When Albert Hoffman and Aldous Huxley spoke of being transfixed and thinking they died or were out of their bodies during hallucinaions, they didn't assume psychosis or insanity. I'm ok with itI'm not too worried after 25 yearsthe only people who remember are my old friends. Once you go outside his green zone, you were in The South and we were hippies. Because they were so famous, of course I remember Larry McMurtrys and Ken Keseys names, but every other name and face is a blur. They brought Cathy into the room. Many individuals were unaware they were being given the drugs. Cassady - who had inspired both On The Road and Allen Ginsberg's beautiful poem The Green Automobile - was at the wheel. Like this video and subscribe for more content just like this!!! After a rather large dose of acid and removing her clothes in the sweltering bus, she saw Larry McMurtry's little son playing in the yard, and rushed out of the bus "Stark Naked" to hold him . She didnt know why because the doctors hadnt told her why. But this was turning into an interrogation. I just wanted to let Cathy know that we knew where she was and were going to get her out. Cathy a drama student from Northwestern University and ingnue was convinced to go on the trip and star with Neal Cassady in the movie they were making. AUGUST 18 Bristol at 2pm then Swansea Town . I was savvy enough to be more than a little alarmed when he did not wake up when I shook himit was 911 and off to the ERyikes! She wanted to talk to me about her mom and about Cathy's disappearance in Houston for 3 days. I was instructed to not say anything: let Larry the Lawyer do all the talking. 'd like to point out that on the first public group tripping experiment ever, the code of staying together was abandoned in Houston with Stark Naked when things got really complicated. Despite this traumatic episode and being left behind, she remained friends with Kesey until her death and was to travel further in Further, the next time to Mexico. "They called from Flatonia, so it should be a few minutes yet," Larry McMurtry says. Photographs by Ron Bevirt, Gene Anthony, Allen Ginsberg, Brian Lanker and Jeff Barnard And here is the whole story as well as I can put it together. Each green room door had a hole cut in it with a little green hatch that opened and closed at face level. I felt totally violated. She told me I could talk to Cathy and see her the next day at 2pm. Oregonian He wasnt going to tell me. Larry Hankin Reportedly, she is married to her long-term boyfriend whose identity is still kept secret from the people. Oh yeah. He was making phone calls to everyone he knew plus the morgue. The Pranksters left her in Texas, and set off on the road without her, according to the account on her website. I went down to play at the No Name bar a few years ago with Michael Aragon and heard about your mom's passing at that time. When autocomplete results are available use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. Right. She ate $78 worth, a big meal for an . Katrina and I had great times in that housethe sun came in and it was a beautiful spacewe ate such healthy meals and every day she would walk down the hill into townand weigh herselfha! I was picked up at the Houston airport by a group of Merry Pranksters in a borrowed car, and was filled in on everything that anybody knew. I would like to use one of the pictures of you from your sitedo you have a preference? The Pranksters, at this stage only on the road a few days, were extremely appealing. Shes an adult. According to McMurtry, "James, in diapers, had no objection to naked people, and the neighbors, most of them staid Republicans, took this event in stride; It was the Pranksters who were shocked". After intervention from McMurtry's attorney, Casamo was released and flew back to San Francisco with Hankin. I cant see her today? "Hummmm," Larry murmurs, looking over the top of his glasses. Tomorrow. She met filmmaker Mike Hagen, who introduced her to head Prankster, author and LSD aficionado Ken Kesey. "Hey!" ", "With Neal Cassady at the wheel, they left La Honda in June 1964 and began their now legendary journey across the country, smoking marijuana, and dropping acid along the way. Larrys lawyer drove Cathy, me and Larry back to Larrys house. Did you see that? ", "The experiments at Stanford were part of a secret operation (MK-ULTRA) funded by the Central Intelligence Agency to determine the potential utility of hallucinogens as weapons in the Cold War. his wife calls. It's a strange omission, for numerous reasons. I remember she could be very Sicilian in her likes and dislikeswe lived briefly with Chuck Sher and his wifeKatrina just hated Abby. I actually smiled. That was quickly remedied, and down the road they went, Cassady spewing the speed-talking rap-babble that inspired Kerouacs writing style." What?! in case someone gets there." I came the next day at 2pm with a bouquet of flowers. Shes over 18, sir. "The experiments at Stanford were part of a secret operation (MK-ULTRA) funded by the Central Intelligence Agency to determine the potential utility of hallucinogens as weapons in the Cold War. That we knew you were here a day-and-a-half ago? A certain major character from season 1, and one of the main characters of the Tom Clancy novels about the character: Cathy Mueller (Abbie Cornish). I was driving myself insane trying to reach the level of humanity these people were function at - or on. More than one? I didnt believe anything anyone told me. Others, like Kesey, were volunteers. And, as in all cultures throughout time: too much fun is a bust-able offense and we must have been having fun-right-up-to-the-edge because the police were always harassing our company or our theater or our director (and the whole city of San Francisco in general), because of our anti-war, anti-Nixon material and pro-pot references and use. Its hard to define in laymans terms. Jun 12, 2013 - Original Flower Child from the Ken Kesey Magic Bus, aka Stark Naked and Kathy Casano. It didn't help that all our first names were Larry, but in time, we got her out. I was a huge babybut it goes with the territory of being a very self involved musician/drug addict she was one of a kind and I am glad she rescued meI will never forget those times. Again. (and the original 13) Pregnant with Caitlin, she set out on the classic road trip for the West Coast and the burgeoning literary and art scene in San Francisco accompanied by her boyfriend, Yale undergraduate Jim McGiffin. myself ", "Dressed in combinations of fluorescent orange and green, the Pranksters acquired new names as their personalities developed. Biography. The oldest of four children, beautiful, dark-featured Italian Cathryn Marie Casamo was born in New Jersey on December 22, 1938, to Sicilian union organizer Bill Casamo and his wife, Victoria. So they hit the road without her. Pam goes on maternity leave in season 8. But shes never" Thats Houston, Texas out there. You understand me? "I don't feel like she left because of what I shared with her in Aspen," she . She ate $78 worth, a big meal for an airport restaurant in 1964. LSD, peyote and other hallucinogens were revelations to Kesey" Chuck Kesey * Brother Charlie She never came back. "The day they were ready to go, Ken Kesey recruited Cassady from a bookstore where he was working, Babbs recalls. Like Like. She can stay away as long as she wants. Chuck has become quite successful publishing the New Real Books. In the morning the Pranksters - who would soon be advising America to tear up their schedules and embrace spontaneity and disorder - remembered that they had a schedule: Ken's book party for Sometimes a Great Notion was happening in New York in only a few days.". Mike Hagen * Mal Function She was dressed in the clothes we had brought her, her hair was combed, no shoes. She was having psychotic episodes. LSD, peyote and other hallucinogens were revelations to Kesey", "The 'trip' was a powerful metaphor linking an LSD-inspired interior journey to the historic American inclination to take to the road in search of another place. It wasnt until much later that he found out he had misspelled it. Artist Roy Sebern painted the word Furthur on the destination placard as a kind of one-word poem and inspiration to keep going whenever the bus broke down. he says, dropping the curtain. It's a strange omission, for numerous reasons. I was just angry. There was talk of a missing persons bulletin. Yours, She went for a walk at 2am and never came back. He was wasted drunk, with a scotch in his hand. They found her! I just hope no one witnessed that exhibition outside. About a silent minute went by, the door opened, a very exhausted Cathy was drag-carried back to us, deposited back on the wooden bench, and the nurse said to Larrys Lawyer: Thank you. Neal Cassady came in, said not a word, went to sleep, and didn't stir until the next day, when it was time to leave. Are you married to her or a blood relative? As Kesey put it: 'What we hoped was that we could stop the coming end of the world'." Cathy is young and energetic, a bit of a different character from the usual employees still working in Scranton. king_of_fuh, Other Works What happened between then and now? Create and promote branded videos, host live events and webinars, and more. Jim appears blissfully unaware of her flirting until she decides to make a . After that I always had eyes for her. Youre not in the north no more and we do things different down here. When autocomplete results are available use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. They carried orange juice laced with LSD, which was legal at the time. Helpful. I was not really that stable and Katrina, as she called herself at that time, was also involved in legal hassleswe shared the same probation officer and he was kind of a stalkerhe probably had the serious hots for herwho wouldn't!anyway he put pressure on her to not have me around, but that is not really what happenedKatrina had to go to the honor farm out in Novato for some little thingmaybe shopliftingI'm not sure whatanyway she met a guitar player there and that was also fine because I was returning to the NW, where I was from. Psychosis is a very general medical term that covers a vast array of mental problems so its really difficult to define simply or succinctly. The ride was very solemn. She subsequently spaced out, went for a walk with the now famous blanket around her shoulders, and was picked up by the cops who didn't have a clue what was happening. No reported sightings by her friends. She tugs at Larry's son. by "Why are you looking for her? Touch device . I handed over the bouquet of roses and my long letter and asked the nurse to give them to Cathy. The nurse nodded to the two males in white: they grabbed Cathy, one to an arm, and started dragging her away. Much of the hippie aesthetic that would dawn on the San Francisco scene in the mid sixties can be traced back to the Merry Pranksters who openly used psychoactive drugs, wore outrageous attire, performed bizarre acts of street theater, and engaged in peaceful confrontation with not only the laws of conformity, but with the mores of conventionality. No blood. "I was ready, but the shock was too much. And off they went. It was the same on the flight back. Cathy didnt speak a word the whole way back. She was naked. Katrina was very spontaneous and did not like too much regimentation or hierarchyshe had a real intellectual anarchy streak. the deep state, CIA, NSA, and their affiliates today-not what happened way back when-and I am open to contrary views. Cathy froze in her tracks and said in a startlingly strong voice, No. Sandy got a Nagra tape deck, threw it in the back, and we took off for the Houston Police Station, about 20 minutes away. She graduated from Westfield High School in New Jersey. I wish I could have talked with her again. All he said was, I know; I wrote a book about it. Touch. Although her daughter says that for decades, her mother was a drug-free vegetarian who loved exercise and health food, Casamo nevertheless was a victim of cancer, dying in the arms of her boyfriend, artist Stephen Ehret, at her Marin County home in Larkspur, California, on the morning of December 12, 1992. On the back was a warning: 'Weird Load'. Cathryn Marie Casamo was the last to join the original group of Merry Pranksters. Neal Cassady showed up at the last minute and displaced Roy Sebern as driver, as far as New York state. A story about the lazy, spoiled, rich Darwin and the poor hardworking Wallace, and evil Darwin's use of wealth and class to suppress the work of poor, uneducated Wallace. Cathy Casamo, friend of Mike Hagen, joined at the last minute, hoping to star in the movie they were supposedly making, but she was left behind in Houston. 3 people found this helpful. Once on the journey, she became disheartened with a bunch of stoned guys admittedly running around trying to make a film with no apparent direction, in Kesey's own words, "embracing amateurism". Three days later I came back from rehearsal and a friend was there, babysitting Katy. On Saturday morning, Peterson made an appearance on Radio 4's Today programme.They gave him a hurried four minutes at the end of the show. Female Pranksters included'Gretchen Fetchin' and 'Stark Naked'; their male equivalents included 'Mal Function' and 'Hardly Visible'; Kesey was 'Swashbuckler' and Lehmann-Haupt 'Dis-mount' on account of his habit of getting off the bus every time it stopped." I remember playing baseball with himhe was just a pupha. It was Stark Naked (later shortened to Stark), who, being temporarily of a disordered mind, mistook him for her little girl. Whats that got to do with anything? I do remember you, but not well. (continued) She leaned down and again whispered in my ear, Get me out. As she munched she slowly regained a measure of her sanity, enough of it that when her boyfriend straggled up, the picture of woe, she meekly took his hand and got on the plane. Stretch Film Division. Whaaaaat? With an amphetamine-fuelled Neal Cassady at the wheel, the Pranksters set off for New York, leaving a trail of colourful chaos in their wake. kp. How long have you had her? She was reluctant to leave her small daughter, Caitlin, behind but wanted the chance to star in the movie so she accepted after Larry agreed to watch over Caitlin. The Merry Pranksters Everybody agreed that was a great idea. She looked like anyone would look if theyd been on acid, got in a fight with the police and spent three days awake in an old, southern mental institution being tested for every drug under the sun and asked every question there is warmed over. And then I heard she passed away. Report abuse. "The 'trip' was a powerful metaphor linking an LSD-inspired interior journey to the historic American inclination to take to the road in search of another place. Born in New Jersey, USA on 22 Dec 1938 to William Ernst Caccamo. AFTERMATH No. with the assistance of page, Stark Gets Off The Bus Hospitals and psychiatrists across the country, carefully selected by the CIA, conducted these government-sanctioned and financed experiments on patients. Larrys Lawyer was well connected and he was on it. Living legend Neal On Wednesday, the cartoonist Cathy Guisewite announced that, after thirty-four years her comic strip, " Cathy ," would come to an end on October 3rd. Call back after 24 hours have passed, sir." Explore. What does that mean? "Make yourselves at home," Larry tells everyone, and the Pranksters troop inside, escorting Cathy. Also, he just looked at everyone, wouldn't evev say high, plinking one of the shop owners vintage Les Paul goldtops, being a general asshole. I was just angry. Furthur is a 1939 International Harvester school bus purchased by author Ken Kesey in 1964 to carry his "Merry Band of Pranksters" cross-country, filming their counterculture adventures as they went. Mini Bio (1) The oldest of four children, beautiful, dark-featured Italian Cathryn Marie Casamo was born in New Jersey on December 22, 1938, to Sicilian union organizer Bill Casamo and his wife, Victoria. Find Cathy. That last little bit of blood taking had walloped her bad. Cathy Simms was Pam Halpert's replacement on 'The Office'. No more. This is great and helps put more of the color in the ongoing portraitI can see her and Holden in your taleCathy/Katrina was the quintessential Free SpiritI checked your website and noticed what an amazing amount of great work you've doneimpressiveI didn't see any references to your early drug use and was wondering how you feel about that being up on the net?I can soft edit it but it is a part of who she wasthe Cosmic Angel of mercy. What about today? The basic story line was: Cathy was high on acid when they all went to sleep on McMurtrys living room floor around 2am and somewhere in the next hour or two Cathy went out for a walk. Hey, Cathy. Casamo later revealed that she mostly did not enjoy the journey once it began because she had believed she was going to star with Casady in a real movie. AUGUST 15 London - The Academy, Brixton. Hankin left Caitlyn with friends, flew to Houston, and found out that Casamo had been arrested, had bitten one of the officers, and with no ID, she had been sent temporarily to a mental health facility outside Houston. Once the ladies touched down in Aspen for a group vacation, fans paid close . The two lived for a time at Gate 5 in Sausalito, which was a collection of two-room houseboats built on the hulls of old WWII beach-landing barges. The two lived for a time at Gate 5 in Sausalito, which was a collection of two-room houseboats built on the hulls of old WWII beach-landing barges. "Dressed in combinations of fluorescent orange and green, the Pranksters acquired new names as their personalities developed. She wanted to see Katy. Staunchly refusing to implicate her fellow bus riders, a case can be made that she actually had "her wits about her" at the time. was born in New Jersey on December 22, 1938 to Bill and Victoria Casamo. She graduated from Westfield High School in Westfield, New Jersey, and went on to major in Drama at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where she counted Richard Benjamin, Paula Prentiss and Karen Black as classmates. Pinterest. Did you get it, Hassler?" My lawyer advised me to get her on the next plane to San Francisco, which happened to be the red-eye. Patrick "The Lama" Lundborg When I met Cathy she was with David Watson a tall black singer who lives in Hawaii now. Cathy would call regularly in the evening and speak to Katy and me. Jay, Thanks Jay, When I did, we lost track of each other. Now, I knew that Cathy didnt like the police. The Northwestern University drama major had been asked to become one of the group and star with Neal Cassady in the movie they were making chronicling the Prankster's "search for a kool place". The Captain insisted they didnt have any female and we should leave. Gypsy was based on the early career of Gypsy Rose Lee, the most famous stripper in burlesque history. You Damn Yankees see that? On the way through San Francisco, they stopped at actor Larry Hankins where they met "The Beauty Witch", Cathryn Casamo, later to be known as "Stark Naked". I remember getting out of the car at Larry McMutrys house and being filmed by the Merry Pranksters cameraman, Mike. However, when she made the request, a . Can I talk to her? To me, all The Merry Pranksters were just one big Person-of-Interest in Cathys disappearance. Yeah, I know). Okay, its 24 hours. Nobody there by that description, no reports of anybody by that description were picked up. Kathy Casano is the common misspelling of Cathy Casamo So if you are looking for her go to. "In 1959, Ken Kesey, a graduate student in creative writing at Stanford University, volunteered to take part in a government drug research program at Menlo Park Veterans Hospital that tested a variety of psychoactive drugs such as LSD, which was legal at the time, psilocybin, mescaline, and amphetamine IT-290. A short time after that, I got a call from Katys dad. I asked him to describe her: it was Cathy. She was living alone over by Golden Gate Park. 40 years ago, Cathy Krauseneck was found with an ax blade embedded deep in her forehead. What! He asked me to meet Katy at her day-care school in Sausalito which was much nearer to me than where they lived at the time. Casamo's antics led to her being briefly institutionalized, . She looked totally drained. I just dialed another police station for the third time and described her for the third time. With an amphetamine-fuelled Neal Cassady at the wheel, the Pranksters set off for New York, leaving a trail of colourful chaos in their wake. Aug 3, 2014. Nor the next. Watch. There were Pranksters sitting on top, waving at my startled neighbors with Day-Glo hands. George "Hardly Visible" Walker told me,"I never thought she was mad". Just asking. He gave me the stations address. ", Conceived as a way of getting to New York for the publication party of, "At La Honda, Keseys home in the Santa Cruz Mountains south of San Francisco, they installed a sound system, a generator on the back and went wild with the paint. Yeah. When she asked me what I did and I used the word satire, she said, You dont like authority, do you? Larry Hankin, Ron Bevirt, George Walker, Mike Hagen and Ken Babbs The company, with its final move, taught a lesson to all the businesses in the world. Authorities found her unresponsive and shot in the face, neck, and . I called you twice yesterday! Birds chirruping. . Katy and I hung out for a couple of more days to me it was a Mutt & Jeff act: we were a well-oiled team by now. We lived up on a hill in Fairfax. It's been almost a decade since her husband's sudden exit from SVU and after Law & Order . Strung out is all. "Over a period of several weeks, Kesey ingested these hallucinogens and wrote of his drug-induced experiences for government researchers. In regard to Cathy Casamo, aka "Stark Naked", most of the confusion began, I believe, with Tom Wolfe's popular second-hand version of the bus story in, the flashbacks of Ken "Intrepid Traveler" Babbs in. I didnt understand. You can pick her up. His goal was to break through conformist thought and ultimately forge a reconfiguration of American society. I called, searched, asked: Gone. San Francisco will always have a place in my heart and Cathy was great. And he hung up. I want to report a missing person. 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