Jerry’s Dead. Now What?In August 1995, twenty-one-year-old music fan Matt is bored with life in small-town Connecticut.

He’s ready to follow the Grateful Dead tour and see where that takes him – and then the news breaks that Jerry Garcia, lead singer of the Grateful Dead, has died. With the tour called off, Matt looks for an alternative adventure.

He decides to go to the place where the counterculture was born: the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco. After a bus journey across the United States to California, Matt finds like-minded friends living in Golden Gate Park and keeping alive the spirit of the hippie culture of the 1960s.

Out there, Matt becomes “Bones,” and new friends Wolf, Sage, Autumn, and Fievel show him the ropes and teach him the art of living homeless in the park and on the streets. Life is blissful at first.

There’s no alarm clock and no responsibility; just friends sharing whatever they have. Needs are met through polite panhandling and occasional street performances.

And there is music everywhere, and dancing in the sun on the grass of the park, and beautiful young women who still believe in the free love philosophy of the sixties. But there is a dark side.

Matt encounters young teens living on the streets who have no choice about being there. There are shady characters from dangerous places bringing in all those drugs.

And living on alcohol, cigarettes, marijuana, LSD, and scraps of leftover food takes its toll. Eventually, Matt must make a choice between saving his own life or that of a friend who desperately needs him.

The decision he makes will change him forever. Relive a lost piece of American culture in this true story of The Kids on Shakedown Street.

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