[meteorite-list] Jim Kreigh memorial gathering +photo's

From: Arizona Keith <arizonakeith_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 00:06:17 -0700
Message-ID: <000c01c80e30$b85f46d0$6401a8c0_at_Keith2>

Hello List

As Mike said, We had a nice time, under the circumstances.

Here's a sneak preview, Geoff Notkin will post the rest.

http://www.geocities.com/arizonaviking2000/2007oct11kriegh164.jpg

http://www.geocities.com/arizonaviking2000/2007oct11kriegh4.jpg

http://www.geocities.com/arizonaviking2000/2007oct11kriegh55.jpg

http://www.geocities.com/arizonaviking2000/2007oct11kriegh123.jpg

http://www.geocities.com/arizonaviking2000/2007oct11kriegh93.jpg

http://www.geocities.com/arizonaviking2000/2007oct11kriegh48.jpg

Don't believe Mike, I only took 165 photo's.

My best to Jim's Family and his many friends, He will be dearly missed, but
not forgotten.

Hope you all enjoy.

Keith
Chandler


----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Farmer" <meteoriteguy at yahoo.com>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2007 10:18 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Jim Kreigh memorial gathering


> My wife and I just returned home from the gathering
> here in Tucson at El Charro, where we remembered Jim
> Kreigh tonight. It was a very warm gathering, almost
> 20 of us I think. just about everyone from Tucson and
> the surrounding area were here, including some great
> friends from the Phoenix area and as far away as Las
> Vegas!
> What an honor for us to take time out and just get
> together to talk meteorites and remember a great man
> who welcomed all into his home and life. There were so
> many people there, from Dolores Hill to Bob Haag,
> Ruben Garcia, Keith Vasquez, Sonny Clary, of course
> the Morads, Marvin Killgore, the Wetmores, Geoff
> Notkin etc, Keith took like 1000 photos, so you will
> all see them soon I am sure! Thanks Keith.
>
> We all just talked about meteorites, the latest news,
> of course the Carancas event was a lively part of the
> evening's discussion since Bob and I have both been
> there. We all told stories about Jim, and Twink had a
> HUGE photo album, and lo and behold photos from my
> first trip to Gold Basin, when the Schraders and
> myself went one time, and got snowed on. Jim and Twink
> welcomed us into their nice warm motor-home for hot
> cocoa. I had almost forgotten about that, but Jim has
> assembled this album with a lot of meteorite-hunting
> history in it. Twink also brought a huge bag of Gold
> Basin meteorites that they had both collected over the
> years, still labeled and numbered, and she let
> everyone dig through the bag for pieces to take home,
> now everyone will have a Jim Kreigh gold Basin in our
> collection, mine will never leave it, it will remain
> in the bag as a reminder to me of who found that
> strewn field.
>
>
> I gotta say, one of my strongest memories of Jim over
> the years is how after every new fall I had been to or
> special new meteorite I announced, he would call and
> come right over to buy a piece a day or two later. He
> would always want two pieces, one for himself and one
> to share with his friend Twink. I would usually try to
> charge him half price, but he already would know my
> retail asking price, and would ALWAYS refuse to accept
> a discount. He would tell me that he wanted to pay the
> same price as everyone else. I would then try to throw
> something extra in the deal when he paid. I always
> lost that battle, he absolutely refused my attempts.
>
> I really liked that guy, and I am sure he would be
> proud of how many friends he had down here. I will
> miss seeing him at the Tucson show, walking around
> with his Jenson Meteorite book and his collection
> notebook. Tucson will be a little more empty without
> Jim Kreigh.
>
>
> Michael Farmer
>
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Received on Sun 14 Oct 2007 03:06:17 AM PDT