I just spent my honeymoon up there in Gatlinburg. While the Gatlinburlier has a certain "feel," the tobacco is all Peter Stokkebye bulk blends sold with new stickers and the pipes are all bucket pipes mounted on the wall. The guys were very entertaining, like characters from a book. Talking about pipes seems to bore them, but ask them about local beers and they become like cartoons. i was entertained for an hour while my wife shopped the Sky Mall. However, I had to really do some digging to find something pipe relates to buy, which ended up being a leather pipe cleaner case, ha ha. I felt compelled to buy something though, as they loaded my pipe up with a Cosmic Twist of LTF and LNF.
Funny story, one of the guys was telling me that the flake was grown just around the mountain, as I was looking right at a PS LTF. I knew all of these blends in the jars very well, as they are at The Briary, but he labels them with the Stokkebye names there. I just gave them a very friendly grin and asked him if I just looked that stupid or if the stories about these tobaccos were just carnie speak for the tourists? After a steady gaze into my eyes, he finally broke a smile and said that he supposed that he was shocked that I really wasn't that stupid after all, ha ha!!