Magic Trip – Presented by Lowell Celebrates Kerouac

A freewheeling portrait of Ken Kesey and the Merry Prankster’s fabled road trip across America in the legendary Magic Bus. In 1964, Ken Kesey, the famed author of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” set off on a legendary, LSD-fuelled cross-country road trip to the New York World’s Fair. He was joined by “The Merry Band of Pranksters,” a renegade group of counterculture truth-seekers, including Neal Cassady, the American icon immortalized in Kerouac’s “On the Road,” and the driver and painter of the psychedelic Magic Bus.

The film will be introduced by Brian Hassett, lifetime Beat Laureate and author of How The Beats Begat The Pranksters. Following the film, Hassett will do a virtual Q&A with Merry Prankster George Walker (aka “Hardly Visible”) who is one of the subjects of the documentary.