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    Crokinole Game Boards with Jeremy Tracey

    enApril 23, 2020
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    About this Episode

    On this episode, we had the pleasure of chatting with friend and business owner Jeremy Tracey. Jeremy and his family own Crokinole Game Boards where they handcraft, high quality crokinole boards right here in Elmira.

    Jeremy and his family own Crokinole Game Boards where they handcraft, high quality crokinole boards. Jeremy has been trained and mentored by one of the best crokinole board builders in the world today. Combine that with Jeremy’s passion for the game of crokinole and what you have is the ‘TRACEY’ board that looks amazing and plays even better.

    Throughout our chat we got to learn about some of values he holds dear, about his mentorship from Willard Martin (a very well known and experienced Crokinole game board maker) along with some of the struggles of being in a family business.

    Learn more about Jeremy at www.elmirafc.com/007

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