The energetic scion of a storied wealthy family, Peggy Mellon Hitchcock funded Timothy Leary’s psychedelic adventures and famously helped him find the spot to do so, at her brothers’ estate in Millbrook, N.Y.
She was an enthusiastic supporter of the counterculture. And when she suggested that her brothers rent Mr. Leary a mansion, she made psychedelic history.
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