Yesterday, a citizen non-profit organization called Mission Hills Heritage  
held its first Presidio Walking Tour around the grassed-over ruins of the Royal 
 Presidio de San Diego in California. There were seven tour groups who 
visited  seven interpretive stations situated around the ruins of this 18th century  
Spanish military installation. Among the tour docents at these stations were 
Ron  May, Richard Carrico, and Jack Williams (all of whom were students of the 
late  Paul H. Ezell at the San Diego State College Archaeology Field School 
in the  1960s-70s). The tours also stopped at the 1929 Juniperro Serra Museum, 
built to  resemble a Spanish Colonial mission and greeted by Willam Doyle, who 
dressed in  a 1929 suit and played the role of George W. Marston, who bought  
the historic archaeology site with his own family money, commissioned  the 
architectural design of the museum and contracted construction, landscape  
design of the park, and planting of the plants before donating it all to the  City 
of San Diego. The tours then went on to the Mexican-American War site of  Fort 
Stockton before ending the tour at a park setting at the top of Presidio  
Park. This is the first itnerpretive tour of Presidio Park since Jack Williams  
shut down his Center for Spanish Colonial Research excavations in the 1990s. 
 
Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.



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