New Article: Crokinole Gains a Following in Brooklyn–and in the Toronto Star

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Over the summer, I pitched my narrative digital video, “The Crokinole Connection,” to the nice folks at the Toronto Star, Canada’s highest-circulation newspaper. While she didn’t go for the film, the features editor instead asked for a 1,000-word story and photos! Back I went to Milk and Roses in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, the scene of the …

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New Trailer for “The Crokinole Connection,” My Video About People Obsessed with an Obscure Canadian Board Game

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My fans know I’m obsessed with obsessive Canadians, so I’m excited to share the trailer for my video storytelling project, “The Crokinole Connection.” What’s Crokinole, you say? It’s a board game invented in Tavistock, Ontario in the mid-19th century, employing elements of shuffleboard, billiards and curling. Each of two players has a handful of small pucks …

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