This was the first ever national exposure for the hobby, and was followed by additional coverage, including a spot on the television show, 'Sixty Minutes'. In 1965, Sports Illustrated published an article ' A Little War can be a lot of Fun', covering the hobby and Charlie's games with his brother. He holds an extremely important place in the history of our hobby none the less. Charlie was a frequent contributor to the magazine, but never published any commercial rules sets. He was one of the original fifty or so subscribers to Jack Scruby's pioneering wargames magazine, Wargames Digest, first published in 1957. Charlie was one of the true Old Guard of our Miniature Wargaming hobby. I have a few years to go yet, but not many). Charlie was probably roughly the age I am now at that time (hmm, he was born in 1914, so roughly 60 years old at the time. I think our first trip was over our Christmas break.

I know at least four of us made the trip there, including Joe and myself, and probably including Jim, Steve, and Rocco. As related in my previous post of this series, the unofficial wargames group from UConn was invited to the home of Charlie Sweet for a game there, by his son David. I'm now going to back track a bit to 1973 -1974.

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