This year’s Grimsby meet was a resounding success. Each one is a little different in some way. This one was a record breaker, it was the first to have official cooperation with a charity, and baseball was foremost on the minds of many of us, as opposed to hockey. The event hall was booked the previous evening for a wedding reception. This meant that Don and I wouldn’t get previous-night access to the hall to set up tables, so we were resigned to the fact that we’d have to org

It took four weeks to find the time to write this article. If you're a regular reader, I hope you appreciate it. I was in perpetual...

This year at the Grimsby swap meet, we’re adding an award, but the finished products emerged in a roundabout way. Don Goodfellow had a...

I had been looking forward to the 2023 edition of Grimsby for a long time. I was thrilled with how the 2022 meet turned out at its new...

It was a summer afternoon in 2022: I found myself at the town park in sleepy Rossmore, Ontario, swapping plates with Dave Steckley and...

The 2022 edition of Grimsby was always going to be unlike any of its previous installments. It had been three years since the last meet...

It’s 6:55 PM on the last Friday night in October. At this moment, I’d be stopping for gas somewhere outside of Trenton. The air would be...

I’m exhausted! What a meet. Where do I start? And, as I’ll ponder later on, where do we go from here? My kids are grown-up enough that I...

No two Grimsby swap meets are the same. Each journey always leaves something unique by which I remember it. There was 2009, when a...

I was waiting at the curb with my overnight bag and a small cardboard box. My skinny house stood warmly behind me, its light shining out...

Well, that didn’t take long. I was in front of my computer on this snowy, Sunday morning, coffee in hand, when I hit my eBay bookmark as...

November 2016 has been a tough month for many members of ALPCA. Long-time member and great guy Dave Kuehn, a guru of all things...

The times, they are a-changing… especially in Ontario, for a small group of close-knit people who band together every six months to...

Raring to go. That’s how I’ve been this fall. The Jays are in the postseason, the weather has been halfway warm, and I’d been looking...

I’ve got it figured out. That is: Why the fall plate meet in #Grimsby feels different from the spring meet in Acton. I was e-mailing a...

Grimsby 2013 was a long-awaited event that was a year-and-a-half in the making—for me, anyway. You may wonder: How can an annual event be...

By now, many of my faithful readers know that I wasn’t able to go to the fall Tinchasers’ swap meet in Grimsby. It was an unfortunate...

I made the six-hour drive from home to the Niagara region on the last Friday in October. Not for the wine, and not for the fruit, but for...

The annual Tinchaser’s license plate swap meet in Grimsby is basically the event that marks the putting of my hobby to bed for the...

October is a wonderful month because it brings three important occasions—Thanksgiving, Halloween, and the annual Tinchasers’ Plate Meet....