Modern Curling History – What’s Old is News

By Sean Graham

In between games at the 2019 Continental Cup, Brian Chick stopped by to talk about his book Written in Stone: A Modern History of Curling. We talk about the sport’s inclusion in the Olympics in 1998, the professionalization of curling, and it’s current place within the sporting landscape.

Historical Headline of the Week

Tyler Searle, “Thistle Curling Club Closing Shop, Moving in with Deer Lodge,” Winnipeg Free Press, February 28, 2023.

Sean Graham is a media historian, an Adjunct Professor at Carleton University, and a contributing editor with Activehistory.ca

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