Dead Trivia: Who named Jerry "Captain Trips"? & Ohio 68 content

This was the OU Post article that ran the morning after the legendary free Grateful Dead show at OU’s Memorial Auditorium in November 1968

“I would much prefer if you call me Jerry,” he said still strumming.” I was called Captain Trips by this girl called Mary Microgram and she was the only one to call me that until Time magazine picked it up. And you know how Time can never be wrong.” 

And a cool little article about the next night's impromptu show (Athens, Ohio is a little north of  Jorma's current home -  Fur Peace Ranch)

https://www.athensnews.com/news/campus/dinner-with-the-dead-after-mem-au...

Excerpt:

" In my senior year at Ohio University I missed out on one of the biggest rock shows of the decade – the one where the Grateful Dead blew away the crowd at Veteran’s Hall on Nov. 22, 1968, in Columbus. ...After the concert in Columbus, Little Bob, a loveable OU stoner, hopped on stage after the band’s encore and convinced Jerry Garcia that a mother lode of dedicated followers in Athens would flock to a Dead show. And that’s all it took for the band to load their van and head to Athens....

...After their equipment was in place, the band – Garcia, Bob Weir, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, Bill Kreutzmann, Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh and Tom Constanten – casually picked up their instruments, tuned up, and segued into a haunting rendition of “Morning Dew.” After that, they rolled into a jam set that included “Dark Star,” “Saint Stephen,” “The Eleven,” and a bunch of bluesy tunes including “Good Morning Little School Girl” and “Turn on Your Love Light,” 

...Unfortunately, there’s not a single sound byte of audio from one of the Dead’s most legendary shows – their free and spontaneous jam session in Athens, Ohio, back in the fall of 1968."