Larry Harvey and Jerry James burned the first Man on San Francisco's Baker Beach on the Summer Solstice, June 21, 1986.
Larry died Saturday in San Francisco after suffering a massive stroke on April 4. He was 70.
I went for the first time in 2013 and today pretty much everything in my life right now is a result of Burning Man.
“We don’t use the trademark to market anything. It’s our identity.”
Black Rock City LLC Founders Will Roger Peterson, Crimson Rose, Michael Mikel, Larry Harvey, Harley K. Dubois, and Marian Goodell
Larry was born on Jan. 11, 1948, and adopted as an infant by Author Harvey and the former Katherine Langford. His parents were farmers near Portland, Ore., and his father also worked as a carpenter. In an article that Mr. Harvey wrote for The Independent in 2014, he said that he and his brother, Stewart, who was also adopted, “felt like exchange students: Everyone treated us well, but we didn’t quite fit.”
Rural life did not suit him, and his parents were not exactly spiritual adventurers. “The heart can really expire under those conditions,” Larry told Inc. magazine in 2012. “I always felt like I was looking at the world from the outside.”
This year’s theme is: I, Robot.
Burning Man 2017 with more than 70,000 people celebrating.