Ken Kesey, Merry Pranksters to take trip down memory lane `Search for Merlin' show in Britain to celebrate final solar eclipse of 1900s

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | August 1, 1999| | Copyright

A smile of dreamy delight plays over Ken Kesey's face as he clicks a computer mouse to play home movies of his 1964 bus trip across America, chronicled in "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test."

Feeling dropped off in the dust by his publisher, the author of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Sometimes a Great Notion" is undaunted.

He's hitting the road again with his band of pals, the Merry Pranksters, taking the latest incarnation of his magic bus on a "Search for Merlin" tour of Britain to celebrate the last solar eclipse of the 1900s.

"It's like (Jerry) Garcia said, `The '60s ain't over ...

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