were mattresses on the floors in every room but the kitchen.
The kitchen was located at the back of the house and Ted lead us back there. I looked out the kitchen window and noticed a garden growing in the back. It looked like the gardens of my time. The vegetables didn’t grow as lush as they did in our city.
There were three women cooking vegetables in the kitchen. They looked li ke the hippies of the 60s . They wore long skirts and peasant blouses and were barefoot.
We all introduced ourselves and they did the same as they began filling plates with a variety of vegetables. There was no meat and I remembered that most hippies in the 60s were vegetarian.
We all sat at a long table and ate and laughed and got to know each other a little. At one point I turned to Ted and asked. “What did you mean by saying there were pigs living in the big house at the end of the road?”
It was Rachael, the tall thin woman with long blond hair and ice blue eyes, who answered, “Pigs are what we call people who are greedy and use up things that should be shared. But every time we ki ll some of them, some more take their place.”
Shocked I asked, “You kill them?”
She looked at me like I had lost my mind, “Of course, that’s what we’re supposed to do.”
The four of us looked at each other shocked, like we must have heard wrong, “What do you mean it’s what you’re supposed to do?” Ina asked.
“We go by the book. We’re Mansonites. ” Rachael said. “Get the book and show them, Ted. I don’t think they understand. We need to teach them.”
Ted left the table and came back with a book. The title of the book was “The Mans on Family.”
I gasped and the other three from my group looked at me. I was the only one who knew w hat this meant.
CHAPTER 23
“The Manson family wasn’t a real family but was made up of a man named Charles Manson and his followers.”
We had returned to the cave and I had called a meeting . Ted had loaned us the book to bring back to our house and study. We didn’t tell him we lived in a city inside a cave. We didn’t tell him much about ourselves.
I continued, “Charles Manson had been in and out of jail since he was a kid. The next to the last time he was released, he tried to tell the authorities that they should keep him.
“ He had met another prisoner in j ail who had taught him to play the steel guitar and it was his intention to be a musician. But he never made it in the music industry and was very bitter about that.
“There was a famous singing group at the time who called themselves the Beatles.”
“I thought beatles were bugs,” someone said.
I laughed and everyone joined in. I continued, “Back then musical groups called themselves all kinds of crazy names. But don’t worry about that right now. The Beatles had a hit song called Helter Skelter and Manson thought they were talking about a race war.
“He decided he was meant to help start this race war. He believed that the murders he later ordered his followers to commit would start this war.
“I want to go off on a tangent here and explain that, until Manson came along, the sixties was a time of peace and free love. The Vietnam War was going on and a part of the younger generat ion tried to counteract this by starting a peace movement. They had slogans like, ‘Make love not war.’
“There was the usage of a lot of drugs at that time but they were drugs that made people mostly mellow and not vi olent. There was a huge concert called Woodstock where some musicians became stars overnight.
“During this concert there wasn’t a single act of violence and no one overdosed on drugs.
“I think Charles Manson ruined the sixties. The
The kitchen was located at the back of the house and Ted lead us back there. I looked out the kitchen window and noticed a garden growing in the back. It looked like the gardens of my time. The vegetables didn’t grow as lush as they did in our city.
There were three women cooking vegetables in the kitchen. They looked li ke the hippies of the 60s . They wore long skirts and peasant blouses and were barefoot.
We all introduced ourselves and they did the same as they began filling plates with a variety of vegetables. There was no meat and I remembered that most hippies in the 60s were vegetarian.
We all sat at a long table and ate and laughed and got to know each other a little. At one point I turned to Ted and asked. “What did you mean by saying there were pigs living in the big house at the end of the road?”
It was Rachael, the tall thin woman with long blond hair and ice blue eyes, who answered, “Pigs are what we call people who are greedy and use up things that should be shared. But every time we ki ll some of them, some more take their place.”
Shocked I asked, “You kill them?”
She looked at me like I had lost my mind, “Of course, that’s what we’re supposed to do.”
The four of us looked at each other shocked, like we must have heard wrong, “What do you mean it’s what you’re supposed to do?” Ina asked.
“We go by the book. We’re Mansonites. ” Rachael said. “Get the book and show them, Ted. I don’t think they understand. We need to teach them.”
Ted left the table and came back with a book. The title of the book was “The Mans on Family.”
I gasped and the other three from my group looked at me. I was the only one who knew w hat this meant.
CHAPTER 23
“The Manson family wasn’t a real family but was made up of a man named Charles Manson and his followers.”
We had returned to the cave and I had called a meeting . Ted had loaned us the book to bring back to our house and study. We didn’t tell him we lived in a city inside a cave. We didn’t tell him much about ourselves.
I continued, “Charles Manson had been in and out of jail since he was a kid. The next to the last time he was released, he tried to tell the authorities that they should keep him.
“ He had met another prisoner in j ail who had taught him to play the steel guitar and it was his intention to be a musician. But he never made it in the music industry and was very bitter about that.
“There was a famous singing group at the time who called themselves the Beatles.”
“I thought beatles were bugs,” someone said.
I laughed and everyone joined in. I continued, “Back then musical groups called themselves all kinds of crazy names. But don’t worry about that right now. The Beatles had a hit song called Helter Skelter and Manson thought they were talking about a race war.
“He decided he was meant to help start this race war. He believed that the murders he later ordered his followers to commit would start this war.
“I want to go off on a tangent here and explain that, until Manson came along, the sixties was a time of peace and free love. The Vietnam War was going on and a part of the younger generat ion tried to counteract this by starting a peace movement. They had slogans like, ‘Make love not war.’
“There was the usage of a lot of drugs at that time but they were drugs that made people mostly mellow and not vi olent. There was a huge concert called Woodstock where some musicians became stars overnight.
“During this concert there wasn’t a single act of violence and no one overdosed on drugs.
“I think Charles Manson ruined the sixties. The
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