Well, you just never know where you'll find a gold mine!
Eight days of Richfield living, and we suddenly discover a great thing! Chad wiki-ed Richfield, just to learn a little about the stats and such. Lo and behold! There, there on the bottom of the page, under "famous people"--Walter Frederick Morrison! The inventor of the original WaMo (standing for Walter Morrison) Frisbee Disc! You'd better believe it!
So what now? Well, what do you think?! We can't very well be minutes away from a living legend and not make the hajj to see him... So Chad looked up his address, found his double-wide trailer on Google Maps, and we headed out to his sagebrush-covered ranch to say hello...
And there he was! Ninety years old, with six heaters going at full-power in a semicircle facing his recliner. The room was stifling! And he let us walk right in... into his "cave", as he called it. And despite our dropping in unannounced and completely inconveniencing him, he was affable and kind. He signed Chad's mangled Frisbee (a black lab had given it heyday just minutes before), made small talk, and we said farewell.
And there you have it! Walter Frederick Morrison! The man behind the myth! What a fabulous way to end the week in cozy little Richfield. Viva la Frisbee!!.... It is now hanging on the wall above our bed, a trophy for Chad to cherish for the next sixty-plus years!
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