SBN 0-8256-3014-2 (US pbk)

"Hugh Romney--who calls himself 'Wavy Gravy' at present--tells me that he has written a book and has asked me to write a foreword for same.

"Not that I'm all that redhot to read it anyhow--or to write the goddamned foreword either, for that matter--having listened to enough of his noseful of nonsense over the last what? decade? EIGHT YEARS AT LEAST! since I first saw him wandering high mumbling looney blundering dumb and stumbling blind due to flag decals stuck over each eye (you folks probably think I'm kidding)...

"But he's got me over a barrel. He's already told his publisher that I'm gonna write the foreword and he's already spent the advance on Peter Whiterabbits bail TWO YEARS AGO AT LEAST..." --Ken Kesey (from the Foreword, US pbk, 1974).

"Well, let's see, the Hog Farm is an expanded family, a mobile hallucination, a sociological experiment, an army of clowns. We are 50 people on a perpetual trip, with six converted school buses, some vans and pickups, one for our pet pig, Pigasus, who now weighs 400 pounds and has learned to roll over.

"The farm was once located on a mountaintop in the San Fernando Valley of California. It has relocated in New York, New Mexico, Nepal, and Norton, Vermont, a journey of over 1,000,000 miles, six years in the making--and this (taaa daah!) is the story of that!" --Hugh Romney (from the opening, US pbk, 1974).

"Social living, communes, altered states, nudity, and hassles with the law. Documented proof that some people actually lived like this. Memoirs of a counterculture by one of its featured players. With guest appearances by Ken Kesey, Ken Babbs, Neal Cassady, Paul Krassner, Stewart Brand, and a cast of colorful others." --Henry W.Targowski (in Mark/Space , 1997).