TAPS pipe show at the N.C. State Fairgrounds tomorrow, at the Martin Bldg. between Trinity Road and the grandstand, north side of Fairgrounds.
Also, ongoing, Pipes by George in Raleigh on Hillsborough Street near NCSU campus, and Tinder Box at Crabtree Valley Mall which has just moved
into a larger retail space at the mall. At both the pipe show just mentioned and at the N.C. State Fair in October, there is pipe carver and repairman
Jerry Perry; he's from Colfax, nearer Greensboro, but gets to Raleigh twice a year. There is a pipe shop or shops in Cary that I am just learning about.
Plenty to work with, at least as far east as Raleigh. Seems as if the Greenville area or the N.C. coast could sustain a pipe shop, or at least a pipe
section in a gift shop (or some such) but I don't know of any. Pipes have a long seagoing tradition and belong at the fishing piers and fish houses.