keep business over the years, by it s a appropriate actually, the weather, because it s with seasons which people were known as the hippy-dippy stereo types of the city, and i really wanted with season of the witch to tell a history of the city with the same sense of the city s toughness, of its mystery and the rugged atmosphere. they were a tough irish catholic down, a traditional city in many ways, and the first wave of history that came to the city really had the drawbridge pulled up on them. many of the kids couldn t get treatment with drug problems and other medical problems. they were given a cold shoulder by the city officials, the cops harassed them so that was only the beginning of what became the first culture war here in san fransisco. america s first culture war was the civil war within san fransisco itself between the new forces, social forces that swept into the city in the 1960s and then the 1970s with gays, and once it took hold, it became bloody. i write in