![]() Where can you find the Ken Kesey Museum? The Ken Kesey House? Take the drive along the Siletz River to find the movie house. Ken Kesey, inventor of the 1960’s, magnetic center of legendary Acid Test, the post-war poster boy for party-to-the-edge, delivers hardcore Oregon backwoods. The family house itself manifests the physical stubbornness of the Stamper family as the nearby river widens slowly and causes erosion, all the other houses on the river have either been consumed or wrecked by the waters or moved away from the current, except the Stamper house, which stands on a precarious peninsula struggling to maintain every inch of land with the help of an arsenal of boards, sand bags, cables, and other miscellaneous items brandished by Henry Stamper in his fight against the encroaching river. Or is it the nature of Oregon business on these back roads? Maybe it’s the lack of alligators and swamps? That Oregon is the backwoods and back roads are all there is? Rolling up on someone’s business uninvited is a surprise no one wants.īut Oregon back roads feel different than places like Louisiana. ![]() They drive fast on 229 and I was looking hard. The Siletz Highway, OR 229 headed east off of 101 north of Depoe Bay, is one of those roads. Those roads show more about a shared history if you look hard enough. In some parts of America I balk at driving the back roads. ![]() ![]() Kernville house for Ken Kesey’s Sometimes A Great Notion ![]()
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