During the 1968 Royal Presidio Field School in San Diego, the San Diego  
Union ran a feature story of Paul H. Ezell's discovery of the former  Catholic 
cemetery at the 1782 chapel. The following week people swarmed inside  the dig 
site at night messing up the graves and causing mayhem with the  archaeology. Ez
ell asked about six archaeology students to sit on the site at  night until he 
could get security fencing and alarms out there. I got the shift  from 11 pm 
to 7 am and chased off gangs of kids all night long. Newspaper editor  Neil 
Morgan got wind of the story and did an editorial which branded us the  "Ghost 
Guard" and the following day I drew a cute little cartoon in my field  journal 
that people still comment on in the archives at San Diego State  University. 
But the message was clear, it was stupid (STOOOOPID) to publish a  story about 
an exposed cemetery.
 
Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.