Showdown on Fort Hill

After I refused to be the Acid Messiah for the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, I walked away from the Hippie Experiment that was becoming a Cult, a mass-mind grope into darkness.

For fifty days I camped with Rena Christiansen atop a mountain in California. I considered us to be the new Adam and Eve in a world that was tearing itself apart in a deadly culture war. We were going back to being mere Individuals – high on life – and not drugs!

The last time I saw Rena was when I stopped in Lincoln Nebraska to see her at the University where she lived in a dorm. I was on my way to Rhode Island where my sister Christine was living with Michael Dundon and his mother, Rose. I would end up in Boston after Michael took Christine and her daughter, Shannon, hostage. Three year later, I am back…