I loved Millbrook then and I love Millbrook now. Three years later, Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert and Ralph Metzer, Ph.D.s recently ejected from Harvard, move into the Hitchcock property, a 2500-acre estate in Millbrook, in wealthy Dutchess County, New York. Art Kleps sends Leary a copy of his Neo-Psychopathic Character Test and is invited to visit Millbrook. He feels an immediate affinity with the LSD-gobbling residents, who are described in glorious detail. During this and subsequent visits amazing stories unfold.
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The chief loses the property and in 1967 moves into the Psychedelian community of Millbrook, remaining there until police raids and legal pressure force its dissolution in the Spring of 1968. Jack Kerouac smashed on wine and a little LSD visiting a Neo-American meeting in Miami. The evil Michael Hollingshead unsuccessfully trying to find a mysterious stash under a rock with a flashlight during a dark and thundery night. The 1967 Fourth of July party at Millbrook with pitchers of acid punch, millionaires dressed in fanciful costumes, an incredible fireworks show, and music by the Grateful Dead. A big acid trip that the author and Haines take with the Hitchcocks which is the best description of a really big one in print.