TWITTER As the break approaches, he rises from his chair and, with the aid of a walker, makes his way to a side stage to offer his remarks. “I realized that when you get to the very bottom of the human soul where the nit is slamming into the grit and you are sinking, but you reach down to help somebody who is sinking worse than you are, then everyone gets high and you don’t even need LSD to do that,” he says. Director: Michelle Esrick
Beecher married Wavy Gravy (born Hugh Romney) on May 22, 1967. An audience of 2,500, in their own tribute clown noses, silently waits as he steps ever so painfully to the microphone to rasp, “Never judge a cover by its book.”. Family Life Born Hugh Nanton Romney in East Greenbush, New York, he later settled in California with his wife, Jahanara Romney (Bonnie Beecher), and his son, Howdy Do-Good Gravy Tomahawk Truckstop Romney (Jordan Romney). But any hint of careerism was derailed when he came into contact with writer Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters, who operated out of La Honda in the Santa Cruz Mountains, traveling in an old school bus painted in Day-Glo colors and named “Furthur.” Romney was “on the bus,” as they said, for a Prankster run to Texas, and soon enough he had his own bus and his own group of 40 or 50 followers who called themselves the Hog Farm.
Date of birth. He soon found his way, like many others of his generation, to California, where he joined up with Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters to form a commune known as the Hog Farm. Pennebaker, John Pritzker Known for his comic hippie and clown personas and for his peace activism, this American counterculture figure founded a non-profit healthcare group called the Seva Foundation; a circus program called Camp Winnarainbow; and a California commune called the Hog Farm. The benefit concert for the Seva Foundation was held Sunday, May 22, 2016 at the event center at Sonoma Mountain Village in Ronhert Park, Calif. Brian Feulner, Special to the Chronicle, Hugh "Wavy Gravy" Romney blows bubbles while on stage with the Yonder Mountain String Band during his 80th birthday celebration concert and fundraiser for the Seva Foundation Sunday, May 22, 2016 at the event center at Sonoma Mountain Village in Ronhert Park, Calif. Brian Feulner, Special to the Chronicle, Hugh "Wavy Gravy" Romney walks down the stairs of his home in Berkeley.
A disciple spreads giant bubbles overhead, as Gravy starts in with a story.
Gravy has a corner room marked by bumper stickers covering every inch of the door, like a college kid’s dorm room. “Well, Wavy Gravy, I can work around you.”.