My Forever Summer

My Forever Summer

You don’t forget your first team, or your first teammates.  The fortuitous circumstances surrounding my introduction to fencing couldn’t be more memorable; a time filled with remarkable personalities.  Fencing was my first college course.  Fencing, the game I’d always...
The Search for Al Snyder, National Champion

The Search for Al Snyder, National Champion

Typically, US National Foil Champions are reasonably well documented, particularly in their home town.  That doesn’t seem to be the case with Alfred R. Snyder, 1944 US foil champion. Andy Shaw, the USA Fencing Historian and owner/proprietor/chief dog rescuer at the...
Photo Grab Bag

Photo Grab Bag

If you’ve been checking in here regularly, you’ll know I frequently haunt the corridors of that virtual thrift store known as Ebay.  Sometimes I find things of fencing interest, sometimes I don’t.  It’s a mix of disappointment and fascination. ...
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