The Party at the End of the Rainbow is a creative nonfiction memoir that reads like a novel.
Released from jail and the asylum in 1970, Ron turns eighteen and gets his draft card, but can never betray his convictions or cut his hair and join straight society. From Rock Concert to gritty city streets, Ron hits the road and finds wild love and wilder sex, along with betrayal. Ron and his wild, tree hugging band of saboteur friends fight back against the Establishment from the first Earth Day school walkout until he joins the White Panthers, whose motto is, "Dope, Rock 'n' Roll And Fucking in the Streets!" This memoir is a sequel to CHICAGO RAGE, and he is working on more to follow about his adventures when he ran away to New Orleans at 15, communal life in the frozen north, and traveling the world on the cheap to spend nine months in a Buddhist Monastery.
Party at the End of the Rainbow
Ronald Schulz
Born in Chicago, Ronald grew up in the suburbs. At fifteen he ran away to New Orleans, where he lived on Skid Row until betrayed by a priest. As a disaffected seventeen-year-old high school dropout in 1969, Ronald took LSD while hitchhiking into the western American counterculture. He also became involved in radical movements in New York and Chicago, including the SDS Days of Rage. Arrested and subjected to several months in a mental hospital, he made the most of it, later joining a Wisconsin commune, which remained his home throughout the 1970s. In 1975 he hitchhiked across North Africa and the Middle East, spent time on a kibbutz, and worked at a copper mine in Israel’s Negev desert. Then on to India and Nepal, where he spent nine months studying Buddhism under Lama Yeshe. His life has been full of adventure, travel, and different jobs, including teaching English classes in Tokyo, construction work in Los Angeles, and mining in South Dakota and Colorado. Ronald has a BA in political science from the University of Washington, as well as certificates in memoir writing and teaching English as a second language. He has been to every continent and lives in Seattle, writing a series of honest memoirs: Chicago Rage, Home at the Edge, Spirit Quest 1969, and Party at the Edge of the Rainbow. Teenage Runaway is coming out soon, with more to follow.
