A sword guild at Grandfather Mountain Highlands Golf Club in Linville offered instruction on the historical significance of swords, with instruction connecting the weapon to Scottish cultural symbolism and history.
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File under things you won't find on the back nine: a guild of historical-fencing devotees pitched a tent at the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games and taught kids the hanging guard. I know it's wrong but I can't think about swords without thinking of The Sword in the Stone. Man I loved that film. Anyway, forty loaner blades, a muddy golf club, and the lesson that a tight wrist cut beats brute strength "like lightning." Turns out the surest way to hold a ten-year-old's attention is a sword and a little Jacobite history. Recap below.
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