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Submitted: 4/27/11 • Approved: 8/31/11 • Last Updated: 8/14/12 • R515348-G0-S3
Annie Apple Van Marm
1971 - 1991
"The Rainbow Dancer"
She was the vegan, tye dye queen, and stage dancer for the Greatful Dead, She danced with beautiful rainbow scarfs that She dyed Herself.
Hit on a bridge by a Wal Mart truck, the cameras immidiately started rolling right after the accident, so I saw the whole thing from many angles....a hundred times....including the part where She looked into the camera and whispered "mamma" ....and than, with the speed of insanity, She gasped and died.
500 people showed up for Her funeral and She is still to this day a local, and even an international legend......
Annie was Jerry Garcia's and Bobby Wier's favorite tye dye artist and stage dancer, singer and 12 string guitar player.....they came to Her funeral and payed for everything....so did Willy Nelson and members of his family.
The article of her death and life was on the front page of the Arkansas newspaper and they refered to Her as a "national Treasure"....Her beauty and power and art and dancing and music were also mentioned.
Her Father is Bernard Petar Van Marm who is a multimedia artist in Chicago
She never went to any school....She was a raw food vegan all of Her life. She studyed music and art since She was 5 years old
by Tammi Thiele
http://escapetothesilentcities.blogspot.com/search/label/Carroll%20County%20Arkansas
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Contributed on 4/27/11 by mjkane7
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