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#Unearthed: The 1979 Arnold Gerschwiler Interview
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When you dig through skating history, you never know what you will unearth. In the spirit of cataloguing fascinating tales from skating hist...
Holiday Skating Memories
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Christmas card from Wm A. Bongers Grocery and Market, circa 1950. Photo courtesy History Colorado Collection. The holidays are a time...
I'm All Ears: Chester Greenwood's Icy Invention
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He owned a bicycle shop, was an accomplished machinist and a father of four. He patented a tea kettle and a machine used to produce woode...
The 1965 North American Figure Skating Championships
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Photo courtesy "Skating" magazine From February 19 to 21, 1965, the top skaters from Canada and the United States convened in Ro...
A Little Look At Lifts
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Rosemary Stewart and Bob Dench Although we have certainly explored a wide range of topics in figure skating history to this point, it s...
The Little Bear Skating Test
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If the name Grindelwald sounds familiar to you, there's good reason. Back in "The Mecca Of Skating: Switzerland's Skating ...
Patinage Poetry: The Language Of The Ice (Part Cinq)
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How doth I love skating? Let me count the ways... Just prior to the Sochi Olympics, I put together the blog's first collection of poe...
The 1982 British Figure Skating And Ice Dancing Championships
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The Iron Lady ruled the roost, the newspapers were dominated by headlines about The Falklands War, "Come On Eileen" by Dexy's ...
How The Attack On Pearl Harbor Affected The Skating World
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Seventy five years ago, the Imperial Japanese Army's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor changed the course of World War II and world his...
Chef Boiardi And The Winton Hotel's Ice Shows
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"This was one of the first hotels to feature ice skating. It was a tremendous novelty at the time; imagine ice skating in a hotel di...
A Late Bloomer: The Wingate Snaith Story
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The son of Willoughby and Margeurite Snaith, Wingate Errol William Snaith was born in 1913 in Ottawa, Ontario. He grew up in Sandy Hill a...
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