Adobe Corral of the Westerners

11/29/2025

CALL FOR PAPERS
Tombstone Territory Rendezvous Annual Symposium
October 20-26, 2026

Tombstone Territory Rendezvous (TTR) invites proposals for papers to be presented at its 16th annual Symposium, October 20-26, 2026. All symposium sessions will be held in Schieffelin Hall, Tombstone’s historic, public meeting house.

The topic for our 2026 symposium is “Gunbattle on Fremont Street: The ‘O.K. Corral’ Gunfight, from Questionable Justice to Legendary Heroes.” Individual presentation and panel proposals should relate to this topic. However, many variations on the topic are possible, from new research on the gunfight itself and the participants to events that led up to the gunfight, the court hearing that followed and those who took part in it, the supporters of both sides that emerged before and after the gunfight, the continuing conflict between the Earps and “cowboys” that unfolded after the gunfight, the political implications of the gunfight, and the gunfight’s portrayal in newspaper accounts, movies, and TV shows. Scholarship about the gunfight has an interesting history of its own and also might be the subject of presentations.

We invite proposals for individual presentations and panels. Sessions for individual presentations will be 45 minutes long (35 minutes for a presentation and 10 minutes for questions). Panels will be 90 minutes long and should have no more than three presenters and a moderator. Panelists can decide how they want to allocate their time. Presenters who are unable to make the trip to Tombstone may give their presentations via Zoom. If you would like to do this, please let us know in your proposal.

The due date for proposals is May 1, 2026. Proposals will be evaluated by the Program Committee in the order they are received. Presenters will be notified of acceptance by Friday June 12, 2026. Proposals should contain the following information.

A. Presenters
• Presenter’s name
• Street address or PO Box
• Telephone
• E-mail address
B. Proposal Content
• Proposal is for
___ Individual presentation
___ Panel
___ Other type of presentation with special time request
• Presenter’s name or the name of each panelist and moderator
• Title of the individual presentation or of the panel and each presentation in the panel
• Brief biographical statement for each presenter and moderator
• Brief abstract or summary of each presentation, not to exceed one page

Please send proposals to Gil Storms, TTR Symposium Program Chair, [email protected].

11/17/2025

ADOBE CORRAL ROUND-UP


December 2025


Date: Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Time 5:30 p.m. (place your order)
Place: Pinnacle Peak Steakhouse, 6541 East Tanque Verde Road (Trail Dust Town)
Reservations: For reservations, contact Theresa Hackney: please call or send text to 520-609-8614 or send email to [email protected] by Monday, November 24.

Reservations are still necessary so that Pinnacle Peak will know how many tables to set up and how many servers to assign to us.

Please arrive by 5:30 so you can put in your order and so we can be served dinner by 6:15. Each of us will be responsible for paying his or her own bill, just as with any restaurant meal.

Bring Guests!


PROGRAM
Our speaker this month is Katya Peterson, whose talk will be about the career of Tucson icon Cele Peterson. For decades, Cele’s store in downtown Tucson was special when downtown was the only place to shop. Cele was not only important to the Tucson fashion scene, but also well known for her philanthropy and her contributions to Tucson’s history. She continued working for Tucson even past her 100th birthday.

Katya Peterson is Cele’s daughter and will share stories of her mother’s many activities and contributions over the years.


DINNER
Each member will order off the Pinnacle Peak menu (www.pinnaclepeaktucson.com/menu/). You may order a full meal, an appetizer, salad, or even just dessert and coffee. Cost depends on what you order. Drinks may be ordered from the bar. Payment is to Pinnacle Peak, the same as with any restaurant meal.

Annual Dues (2025–26): It is time to pay membership dues for 2025–26: $25.00 for a single member or $45.00 for a couple living at the same address. You may bring a check to the September meeting, or you may send a check for dues to our treasurer, Kathleen Halstead, 1817 N. Wrightstown Place, Tucson, AZ 85715. Make checks payable to the Adobe Corral. Thank you.


Please send Round-up editor Jim Corrick ([email protected]; 520-321-0314; or 4402 East Cooper Circle, Tucson, AZ 85711-4260), corral-related news (editor reserves the right to decide what will run).

Also notify Jim about e-mail or address changes so that he can keep the membership roster up to date and so that you receive your Round-up each month.

Dinner Menu Welcome to Tucson’s steakhouse, Pinnacle Peak! We have been serving the good people of Tucson since 1962. Family-owned and locally operated, Pinnacle Peak takes great pride in serving real Western food in an authentic Old West atmosphere. Over the decades, we have become famous for ser...

09/10/2025

ADOBE CORRAL ROUND-UP


Septenber 2025


Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Time 5:30 p.m. (place your order)
Place: Pinnacle Peak Steakhouse, 6541 East Tanque Verde Road (Trail Dust Town)
Reservations: For reservations, contact Theresa Hackney: please call or send text to 520-609-8614 or send email to [email protected] by Monday, September 22.

Reservations are still necessary so that Pinnacle Peak will know how many tables to set up and how many servers to assign to us.

Please arrive by 5:30 so you can put in your order and so we can be served dinner by 6:15. Each of us will be responsible for paying his or her own bill, just as with any restaurant meal.

Bring Guests!


PROGRAM
Our speaker this month is Carolyn Niethammer, whose talk will be “Turning Fact Into Fiction: Another Way to Approach History.” Carolyn is a journalist and nonfiction writer, who after nine books on food and Native American women, amused herself by writing two historical novels. The Piano Player (Wild Oats, 2014) is set in 1880s Tombstone and 1889 Gold Rush Alaska and includes both historical and fictional characters. Leaping ahead a century, Carolyn’s latest novel, Everything We Thought We Knew (Booklocker.com, 2025), takes place on an Arizona commune in the 1970s, a time and movement that reverberates today in the phrases we use and the food we eat. The catch phrase is s*x, drugs and rock ‘n roll, but it’s also antiwar protests, men returning from Vietnam, and the quest to remake society in a less corporate mode.

Carolyn is especially proud of her award-winning book A Desert Feast: Celebrating Tucson’s Culinary History (University of Arizona Press, 2020), a 4,000-year history of food in the Santa Cruz Valley and an explanation of why Tucson was named a UNESCO City of Gastronomy.


DINNER
Each member will order off the Pinnacle Peak menu (www.pinnaclepeaktucson.com/menu/). You may order a full meal, an appetizer, salad, or even just dessert and coffee. Cost depends on what you order. Drinks may be ordered from the bar. Payment is to Pinnacle Peak, the same as with any restaurant meal.



Annual Dues (2025–26): It is time to pay membership dues for 2025–26: $25.00 for a single member or $45.00 for a couple living at the same address. You may bring a check to the September meeting, or you may send a check for dues to our treasurer, Kathleen Halstead, 1817 N. Wrightstown Place, Tucson, AZ 85715. Make checks payable to the Adobe Corral. Thank you.


Please send Round-up editor Jim Corrick ([email protected]; 520-321-0314; or 4402 East Cooper Circle, Tucson, AZ 85711-4260), corral-related news (editor reserves the right to decide what will run).

Also notify Jim about e-mail or address changes so that he can keep the membership roster up to date and so that you receive your Round-up each month.

Dinner Menu Welcome to Tucson’s steakhouse, Pinnacle Peak! We have been serving the good people of Tucson since 1962. Family-owned and locally operated, Pinnacle Peak takes great pride in serving real Western food in an authentic Old West atmosphere. Over the decades, we have become famous for ser...

07/15/2025

ADOBE CORRAL ROUND-UP


July 2025


Date: Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Time 5:30 p.m. (place your order)
Place: Pinnacle Peak Steakhouse, 6541 East Tanque Verde Road (Trail Dust Town)
Reservations: For reservations, contact Theresa Hackney: please call or send text to 520-609-8614 or send email to [email protected] by Monday, July 21.

Reservations are still necessary so that Pinnacle Peak will know how many tables to set up and how many servers to assign to us.

Please arrive by 5:30 so you can put in your order and so we can be served dinner by 6:15. Each of us will be responsible for paying his or her own bill, just as with any restaurant meal.

Bring Guests!


PROGRAM
Our speaker this month is Mauro Trejo, whose talk will be “The History of the Tucson Presidio.” For over 4100 years, people have continuously inhabited the Tucson Valley. In 1775 Europeans established a military fort called a Presidio along the eastern bank of the Santa Cruz River floodplain. Throughout the following 80 years, the Spanish and Mexican population of Tucson lived within the confines of this fort, out of which the city of Tucson would emerge. This talk will cover the history, significance, and demise of the Presidio.

Mauro Trejo is a local historian and member of the boards of The Tucson Presidio Trust, Los Descendientes de Tucson, and the Anza Trail Foundation. In addition, he is a commissioner with the Tucson-Pima County Historical Commission. Mauro has spent most of his life studying the history of Tucson and has given numerous talks about and walking tours of this amazing place. He also runs Trejo’s Tucson Walking Tours and is a seventh-generation native, with family roots in Tucson dating back to 1780.

DINNER
Each member will order off the Pinnacle Peak menu (www.pinnaclepeaktucson.com/menu/). You may order a full meal, an appetizer, salad, or even just dessert and coffee. Cost depends on what you order. Drinks may be ordered from the bar. Payment is to Pinnacle Peak, the same as with any restaurant meal.


Please send Round-up editor Jim Corrick ([email protected]; 520-321-0314; or 4402 East Cooper Circle, Tucson, AZ 85711-4260), corral-related news (editor reserves the right to decide what will run).

Also notify Jim about e-mail or address changes so that he can keep the membership roster up to date and so that you receive your Round-up each month.

Dinner Menu Welcome to Tucson’s steakhouse, Pinnacle Peak! We have been serving the good people of Tucson since 1962. Family-owned and locally operated, Pinnacle Peak takes great pride in serving real Western food in an authentic Old West atmosphere. Over the decades, we have become famous for ser...