Year 16 and the young ones rebel

[Rikki]

Winter year 16, Adam and Eve and their offspring are no longer with us. The settlement of Hopgoodhouse has outgrown its tented camp.  The Young folk want to cross the creek and establish agriculture, the elders want to stay true to the ideals of seclusion  from the outside world . A compromise is reached:  the island where Adam and Eve created the first settlement in this strange land will remain untouched, undeveloped  and a few hardy souls will live there as the founders did foraging and hunting off the land . A crypt will be built to house the founders remains  and the bodies of the first children in a founders memorial graveyard.  no other new development will ever be allowed on the island.  The new generation will cross the creek, away from the river so as not to attract attention from any passing travellers. Be allowed to farm and develop education. As part of this compromise the young ones accept the ideals of our community, total isolation, no contact with the outside world, to live or to die by our own labours alone - this new world our new world is ours for the making and we will let no outsider contaminate it.




 







 




 

[Rikki]

The new generation went straight to work, creating a small hamlet,  However not enough builders meant soon the ageing population outnumbered the children born and the communities numbers fell swiftly- the need for new homes meant that aesthetics went by the wayside, cheap housing had to be built- and quickly