When Archivist Nicholas G. Meriwether visited Mouse’s studio, he was struck by his sketch for the poster. “It was perfect,” Meriwether recalled. “A skeleton scribe, writing music in a garret; this was indeed ‘the attics of our lives,’ for what is an attic but an appropriately funky, Haight-Ashbury view of an archive?” Learn more about the Grateful Dead Archive on page 460 of this issue.
© Stanley Mouse, 2011. Used with permission.