The keepers of the Grateful Deads history

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  • The University of California, Santa Cruz has a special collection called the Grateful Dead Archive.
  • In revisiting the band's history, you can see the group's collectivist spirit take shape.
  • Many of the archival materials reflect the countercultural and psychedelic aesthetics of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district in the 1960s.
  • The Grateful Dead understood the importance of recording its legacy, and for six decades fans and other musicians have worked to carry that legacy forward, pushing it into new directions.
During this years Days Between from Aug. 1 to 9 NPR Music is publishing a series of stories about what keeps drawing people to the Grateful Dead and how they plan to carry the bands legacy forward.

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