Posts tagged with ‘community’

  • Apr282013

    Father the Flame: A Smoking Pipe Documentary

    Director Chad Terpstra and Producer/Co-director Rush are putting together a marvelous documentary for our beloved pastime, and giving the once humble smoking pipe a dash of limelight it deserves. I say “once humble” because the vision, skill and dedication of pipe makers like Jeff Burt-Gracik, and briar cutters like Mimmo Romeo (both featured in the trailer)…

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  • Jan212013
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    The Pipe Guys: An Introduction

    About 10 years ago I pulled my first tobacco pipe out of its box. It was and is a Peterson B10 in British racing green. A friend kindly brought it back home for me after his trip to Ireland. I smoked it hot and wet that first time, and a couple times after that. I didn’t enjoy it much at all at first, but I tried again day after day. What brought me back to that pipe time and time…

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