T Magazine: Dennis Hopper Day Descends On Taos, N.M.

Written By Unknown on Rabu, 10 September 2014 | 17.35

Marin Hopper, the daughter of the legendary actor, and the founder of the handbag line Hayward, shares her account of the first annual event, which featured a group motorcycle ride along the route of "Easy Rider." The photographer Lisa Eisner captured the festivities as they unfolded.

One of the few people who spent their formative years in the 1970s at the Taos Mabel Dodge Luhan house, or "Mud Palace," the 22-room adobe structure my father bought in the Taos Pueblo, was Robby Romero. My father took him under his wing and encouraged him to become the rock musician and recording artist he is today, as the leader of Red Thunder, the band he formed in 1989.

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My dad wanted nothing more than to be memorialized in the place he made his home. Before he died, then-Governor Bill Richardson declared his birthday, May 17, to be Dennis Hopper Day in the state of New Mexico.

This meant the world to my dad.

On May 17, 2014, Robby launched the first annual Dennis Hopper Motorcycle Ride. The event saw a bevy of bikers, hosted by the Taos Pueblo and escorted by Gary Lefthand, the chief of police, ride along the places where "Easy Rider" was filmed, including the Pueblo itself. It was the first time bikers were permitted to ride there since my father, Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson famously did so more than 40 years ago.

For me, watching this line of bikers roar down the open road was like seeing a legion of Dennis Hoppers hurtling up and out of Valhalla. The open road, New Mexico sunshine and the purring pursuit of freedom. Nothing would have given my father greater joy than that.


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