Just a reminder to anyone within driving distance of Raleigh, N.C., or who will be in the area,
the TAPS Pipe and Tobacciana Expo will be this Saturday, April 12, at the N.C. State Fairgrounds
in the Governor James G. Martin Building, inside Gate 9 on Trinity Road , across the parking lots
from the grandstand. As the flyer says, parking is paved and virtually unlimited. Hours are
9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Among many other exhibitors, Old Dominion corncob pipes, one of our
sponsors, and the N.C. pipe carver Jerry Perry, among many others. There will be tobacco
available for sampling in the smoking area on the covered patio at picnic tables. I can't imagine
you could attend in less than two hours, and perhaps more like three or four (or all day) if you
intend to do any serious pipe shopping or sample several bowls of tobacco with an appropriate
break between "tastings." Our new sponsor Pipe and Leaf will also be there, I believe. A side
trip would be Pipes by George on Hillsborough Street east if the NCSU campus. Saturday's he's
open until 5 p.m. I'm not vested in either the pipe show nor the pipe shop, except as a customer.
the TAPS Pipe and Tobacciana Expo will be this Saturday, April 12, at the N.C. State Fairgrounds
in the Governor James G. Martin Building, inside Gate 9 on Trinity Road , across the parking lots
from the grandstand. As the flyer says, parking is paved and virtually unlimited. Hours are
9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Among many other exhibitors, Old Dominion corncob pipes, one of our
sponsors, and the N.C. pipe carver Jerry Perry, among many others. There will be tobacco
available for sampling in the smoking area on the covered patio at picnic tables. I can't imagine
you could attend in less than two hours, and perhaps more like three or four (or all day) if you
intend to do any serious pipe shopping or sample several bowls of tobacco with an appropriate
break between "tastings." Our new sponsor Pipe and Leaf will also be there, I believe. A side
trip would be Pipes by George on Hillsborough Street east if the NCSU campus. Saturday's he's
open until 5 p.m. I'm not vested in either the pipe show nor the pipe shop, except as a customer.