Time Traveling with Hans Halberstadt

Time Traveling with Hans Halberstadt

A recent gift to the Archive has me dumbfounded.  It’s existence was something I had speculated about in a vague way, but never dreamed of finding proof for.  Much less, having the proof come directly to me as a donation to the Archive.  Yet here we are. Tucked...
More Time with Jerry Biagini!

More Time with Jerry Biagini!

There is nothing in the world quite like Jerry Biagini’s greeting to me when I visited him about two weeks ago.  Me: “Mr. Biagini, how are you?”  Jerry: “I’m 90 years old and cranky!”  As it turned out, he wasn’t so cranky as...
The Spartan Women, Part One

The Spartan Women, Part One

The last article I wrote, which featured Michael D’Asaro’s time in San Antonio and the Army, got me thinking about one of the reasons I decided to attend San Jose State to train with him.  That reason was the awesome strength of his Women’s foil...
A Newfound Respect

A Newfound Respect

It’s so much fun to have your expectations and assumptions blown to bits.  That happened to me this week when I had the great fortune to meet the daughter of long-time Letterman fencer Colonel Laurance Brownlee.  Colonel Brownlee was a fixture of West Coast...
The Salle in the Woods

The Salle in the Woods

In the woods of Southern Oregon off a dirt road and across a valley from the winding I-5 was a fencing salle d’armes built by Charlie Selberg in an old barn.  It was stuffed to the rafters with fencing memorabilia dating back decades.  I fenced there a couple of...
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