A great setting, great story, great tobacco

[admin]

Fred Brown is a retired Senior Writer for The Knoxville News-Sentinel. He has been a journalist for more than 45 years, and a life-time pipe smoker.
His talents really show through in the brief, and extremely entertaining article:
http://pipesmagazine.com/smokehouse/pipe-smoking/jackknife-plug-from-blending-gods/

 

[bowhatchie]

Wow... I really enjoyed that... I can see Maude now with cob in mouth,knife in hand doing battle with that rattler!! Just great!

 

[classicgeek]

Awesome. Just awesome. Makes me understand the spirit behind Jackknife Plug, even if it's nothing like the tobaccos I like.
Simon

 

[unclearthur]

Wonderful story!

 

[admin]

Please give Fred some comments on his post too!

 

[buck67]

It was a wonderful story. I like hearing about the old days and the old ways. My grandparents, Raymond and Lorena Grissom, lived a simple life in the hills of central Mississippi. A small house with a fireplace and an outhouse. Christmas at their house made me appreciate central heat and indoor plumbing, but I will never forget the cold nights and a bed full of handmade quilts and the long trips to the outhouse. Love those memories. My grandfather smoked Prince Albert cigarettes, which had a unique aroma to me back then.

Thanks for the story, really enjoyed it.

 

[nativeson]

Wow! Great story. It's a shame he retired.

 

[brian64]

Great story! Reminds me of the scene with the cob-smoking woman in The Outlaw Josey Wales.
I recently picked up 3 tins of Jack Knife Plug...haven't tried it yet, but very much looking forward to it!

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[papipeguy]

Wish I had known Maude. Heck of a woman.

 

[unclearthur]

Maude sounds a lot like my great aunt Ollie. Smoked good old Plow Boy all her life. Raised a huge family and lived to be 97.

 

[hobie1dog]

That's back when women only bathed once a month....real women who smoked, shot guns, whipped young uns, and spit out babies with no Epidural for pain.