by Doug Nichols | Mar 15, 2018 | Blog Post, Northern California, Schools/Clubs, Stanford |
Well, this has been an adventure! As far as that goes, what isn’t? But in the present incarnation, adventuring has taking me on a tour of San Francisco Bay Area fencing history in preparation for a talk I’m going to give in a few weeks at Harold Hayes’ Pacific...
by Doug Nichols | Aug 8, 2017 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches A - E, Coaches F - J, Coaches K - O, De Jong, Duris, Funke, Erich, McDougall, John, O'Brien, William |
Not the buried in the sand pirate-type I always dreamed of unearthing in the Southern California former orange-grove backyard where I grew up. My treasure hunting has been refined to a sharper focus that has proven no less fortunate to me than those who find...
by Doug Nichols | Jun 12, 2017 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches F - J, Fencers, Fencers K - O, Halberstadt, Hans, Mayer, Helene |
I’ve been perusing the pages of “The California Fencer”, later just “The Fencer”, a West Coast publication that circulated for a few years following WW2 and prior to the start of the national American Fencer magazine. I’ve written about it before, but in short,...
by Doug Nichols | Jun 1, 2017 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches A - E, Coaches F - J, Coaches K - O, Coaches P - T, Coaches U - Z, D'Asaro, Michael, Doug's Stories, Fencers, Fencers K - O, Halberstadt, Hans, Mayer, Helene, McDougall, John, Mitchell, Maxine, Mori, Torao, Okawa, Heziburo, Selberg, Charles, Vince, Joseph |
Fear. That’s the thing. It’s a motivator for me. Not the average, everyday kind of fear, nor an amorphous fear of zombies or clowns. Rather, the fear of loss. A very specific kind of loss. The loss of fencing history. I don’t know why it gets to me so much, but it...
by Doug Nichols | Oct 31, 2016 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches A - E, D'Asaro, Michael, Doug's Stories, Fencers, Fencers K - O, Marx, Michael, Massialas, Greg |
Between my own collection and some donations to The Archive over the last couple of years, I think I have every edition of the Fencing Times that were published beginning, I believe, in 1980. It was nominally the So Cal Division newsletter, but for those of us that...
