August 17, 2025
Back from Kingman and my 60th high school reunion.
We had a full house at the Hassayampa Inn Conference Center on Saturday morning for my talk on The Truth About Doc Holliday. Here's the crowd I was facing.
What I like about this photo is all the people who are smiling. We had some fun.
This wasn't my first visit to the Mile High City to talk about Doc. Here is my blog from 13 years ago:
July 6, 2012
Drove up to Prescott yesterday at three. Had a speech for the Prescott Westerners Corral, a group dedicated to authentic history. The last time I spoke to the Prescott Westerners (2005) I mentioned that a young medical student had interviewed Doc Holliday's girlfriend in 1940. A buzz went through the room. So much so that I asked what the matter was. Several people pointed to an elderly gentleman sitting near the front who was now smiling broadly at me. the entire room said, almost as one, "Dr. William Bork is seated right there." I literally jumped off the stage to shake his hand like some gushy Justin Beiber groupie. I mean, holy guacamole, HE actually talked to Doc Holliday's girlfriend!
After the speech I had a nice talk with him about the encounter, but as happens so often when you get to actually talk to someone who glimpsed history, he didn't really have any earth shattering news to tell about it. She was merely an old woman trying to cash in on her story and she had things mixed up, didn't tell a very good story and had unrealistic ideas about getting paid for it.
Still, it was a thrill to talk to him.
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Back to the present. We took off for Kingman after my talk and made it to Metcalf Park a little after one p.m. where Dan gave us our matching T-shirts he had made up for the 60th reunion. We talked to the survivors (we have lost 70 out of a class of 125) and solved some life, what's left of it.
Here I am with two of my MCUHS baseball teammates Philbert Watahomogie (a first class pitcher), me and Paul "Chapo" Torres, first baseman extraordinaire.
We had some fun and came home this morning.
"Hope I die before I get ridiculously old."
—The Whom (It May Concern)
Looks like you two were having a good time! I remember driving through Wikiup one year and was inspired to write a verse or two about going through Wikiup in my pick-i-up. Don't think that it merited saving, though!
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