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Timely News for World Sword Swallowers Day
World Sword Swallowers Day happens every year for the last Saturday in February. It falls a little early this year.
We hope you will use the opportunity to peruse the Travalanche Sword Swallowers section, which has nearly 30 posts on the topic, mostly profiles of famous swallowers (ahem) of yore and lore. Other resources include The Sword Swallowers Hall of Fame and the website of the Sword Swallowers Association International, which sponsors this day.
If you feel like getting out of the house, please get thee to your nearest Ripley’s Believe It Or Not Odditorium, where they’ll be hosting their annual sword swallowing celebration this afternoon, and offering discount tickets. All info is here.
And beyond today, there’s more stuff:
The new book To the Hilt: A Sword Swallower’s History of Sword Swallowing by Dan Meyer and Marc Hartzman is scheduled for a February 28 release. Get all the dope on it here.
And my other favorite literary sword swallower Lady Aye (Elise Carter) wants you to know about the upcoming Coney Island Book Fair, coming up May 10. I, for one, plan to be there, so I hope I will see you!
Be sure and read the Sideshow Gazette.
Places you can see Sword Swallowing in NYC and people who offer it:
Honor your sword swallowers! They cheerfully risk their lives for your entertainment. Literally, Again, the sword swallower section of Travalanche is here.
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