New guy from Nebraska

[dadbobcat77]

I was browsing the forums the other day and noticed there's a guy on here from central Nebraska. I thought, holy smokes, this guy is just 25 miles north of me.
I have a small collection of pipes, some cheap Dr Grabow pipes, a Stanwell, a Baraccini Mare Blu smooth, and a number of no name pipes. so far, John Bull and Casey Jones are my favorites, and Carter Hall is one of my daily go to tobaccos. there's a cigar bar where I live, and they allow pipe smoking in there. I think they have some kind of pipe club on thursdays. I haven't seen many other pipe smokers out in the wild recently. a retired high school choir teacher, and a friend of mine will bring his briar over once in a while. I look forward to chatting about different pipe tobaccos on here

 

[leonardbill1]

Welcome from Denver and GBR!

 

[cigrmaster]

Welcome from Florida.

 

[crusader]

Welcome fellow Nebraskan! I am assuming you are in Hastings. While I am somewhat an introvert, a pipe club might be sort of fun.

 

[mso489]

Welcome aboard from central North Carolina. In college, where we first met, my wife and I both had classes with the Nebraska poet laureate John Neihardt, the poet laureate of Nebraska and author of many books including Black Elk Speaks, who taught at University of Missouri at Columbia, Mo. I think he was in his nineties by then, with long white hair, and he looked like he had stepped right out of a Civil War photograph. Unless you knew about him, he gave the impression of a hallucination. He was a wonderful raconteur and won over the most hard-nosed literary types, a visionary and a mystic.

 

[FurCoat]

Welcome from North Carolina

 

[AcesAndEights]

Welcome from Fort Collins! Not too far away!

 

[manny816]

Hello and welcome from NJ.

 

[crusader]

Welcome aboard from central North Carolina. In college, where we first met, my wife and I both had classes with the Nebraska poet laureate John Neihardt, the poet laureate of Nebraska and author of many books including Black Elk Speaks, who taught at University of Missouri at Columbia, Mo. I think he was in his nineties by then, with long white hair, and he looked like he had stepped right out of a Civil War photograph. Unless you knew about him, he gave the impression of a hallucination. He was a wonderful raconteur and won over the most hard-nosed literary types, a visionary and a mystic.

Interestingly, I lived in one of his houses in Wayne Ne. For a couple of yrs when I was a kid. I believe Ol' John G was associated with Wayne State U for a while.

 

[MattRVA]

Welcome from Virginia

 

[kurtbob]

Welcome from coastal Georgia!

 

[STP]

Welcome

 

[WVOldFart]

Hello and welcome from West Virginia.

 

[dadbobcat77]

Welcome fellow Nebraskan! I am assuming you are in Hastings. While I am somewhat an introvert, a pipe club might be sort of fun.

correct! I saw a post the other day with a thing about a pipe club and you posted a map from Grand Island to KC

 

[JOHN72]

Welcome from Spain...............

 

[mso489]

crusader, amazing you lived in a J. Neihardt house as a kid. I think his birthplace is some kind of Neihardt museum, but offhand I'm not sure where that one is.

 

[Michigan_Bill]

Welcome from Michigan! Glad you’re here!

 

[weezell]

Welcome from Ohio...

 

[TheIronMonkey]

Welcome from Pennsylvania and New York.

 

[Sgetz]

Welcome from Durham in the UK