Hello from South Dakota

[Cadamson]

Hi everyone,

I had my first smoke in seminary with pipe and tobacco borrowed from a classmate who's now a priest in Saskatoon. I got my first corncob and smoked it on my wedding day a decade ago. Now I mostly smoke with my billiard briar.

I'm about to teach a class on smoking in literature and essays, and I've been thinking about the pipe smoking community lately. I'm looking forward to reading some Kipling and Chesterton among others and watching Father the Flame with students. If you have favorite depictions of smoking you would like me to share with students, let me know!

 

[RobNYC]

Welcome from New York City!

 

[DanWil84]

 

[Derby]

Welcome from a neighbor in Minnesota.

 

[Pipeoff]

Welcome from W. N Y. !

 

[Grangerous]

Welcome from the New Jersey Shore

 

[AcesAndEights]

Welcome from Northern Colorado! I actually lived in Spearfish, SD for 12 years before moving here

 

[Fralphog]

Howdy from Idaho. Welcome to the forum!

 

[irishearl]

Welcome. Native South Dakotan here from Mitchell.

 

[mso489]

A course called Smoking In Literature; now that's something. Welcome aboard from central North Carolina, deep in the U.S. tobacco belt.

 

[Ag®o]

Hello and Welcome from Italy!

 

[OldWill]

I would be interested in a brief synopsis of your course, purely out of academic curiosity.
Hello and welcome from Central Texas, from a former professor of organic chemistry.

 

[STP]

Welcome

 

[OldWill]

Hi everyone,

I had my first smoke in seminary with pipe and tobacco borrowed from a classmate who's now a priest in Saskatoon. I got my first corncob and smoked it on my wedding day a decade ago. Now I mostly smoke with my billiard briar.

I'm about to teach a class on smoking in literature and essays, and I've been thinking about the pipe smoking community lately. I'm looking forward to reading some Kipling and Chesterton among others and watching Father the Flame with students. If you have favorite depictions of smoking you would like me to share with students, let me know!

I don't know if it is an exact fit for your course planning, but remember that Freud was never without a pipe, and when asked if there was any deep significance in his habit, he is supposed to have replied, "Sometimes a pipe is just a pipe."
Cheers!

 

[MattRVA]

Welcome from Virginia

 

[Morrison Jeremiah]

Hello and welcome from London

 

[dunnyboy]

Welcome professor from NYC.

 

[FurCoat]

Welcome from North Carolina

 

[kcghost]

Welcome from KC!!

 

[leonardbill1]

Welcome from Denver!