Your Heritage, Your Pipe Smoking

[Lyon0oq]

Happy Saint David's Day everyone! So, being of Welsh heritage, I have a St David's Day Smoke that I organized for my pipe club this evening. I also made sure I had a bag of Esoterica Cardiff for today (even though it has the capitol city's name, but isn't actually made in Wales). So here is what I'm wondering, from the German, to the Dutch, to the Italians, and the Japanese, so may different nationalities have a pipe smoking history. What is your personal heritage, and have you been able to incorporate any of its pipe smoking history into your own personal consumption?

 

[Bowie]

Happy Saint David’s Day to you, from another pipe smoker of Welsh heritage.

 

[olkofri]

Proudly Canadian!! ??

Brigham Heritage Canadian:



Yeah, I know, Brighams are no longer made here, but I'm yet to hit Montreal and visit Blatter & Blatter.
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[anotherbob]

well supposedly Germany has the highest percentage of pipe smokers globally. So in a way just being a piper works well with that.

 

[Sonorisis]

I walked into the local "Pharmacy" when I was a kid and they had this big, cardboard display of Dr. Graybow pipes. It intrigued me, and that's where I think the 'seed' was planted in my mind. I don't know the heritage of the owners of the Pharmacy, nor very much about my own heritage. Just an impressionable, American kid.

 

[rushx9]

'Merica, baby! The land where it all began. My heritage is mostly Irish, Norse, English, and Swiss, but I have full blooded Native great-grandmothers on both my mother and father's side.

 

[irishearl]

Well, being Ulster Scot, I should be smoking Rattray pipes and tobacco which I don't. So, don't have the Scottish part covered but do the Irish part with pipes quite well.

 

[warren]

I'm pretty dull I guess. I smoke my pipe. That's what I do. I try to keep it simple, unadorned and enjoyable.

 

[musicman]

Back about 10 years ago, right after purchasing my first pipe (A nice stanwell bamboo dublin), I figured my second pipe needed to be a Peterson, as although I am also English and French, the bulk of my ancestry is Irish. So I picked up an Aran Apple (86). I still have both pipes, although I have yet to purchase another Peterson. Maybe it's time?

 

[americaman]

American here, as the username implies. I have American blends in my rotation, such as McClelland and Cornell & Diehl, and I recently got a BriarWorks pipe to support American industry.

I am looking forward to the pipe club meeting tonight. By the way, anyone in the Los Angeles area on this forum is welcome to come out.

 

[mso489]

My family owns up to English, Scotch-Irish, maybe Scotch, and maybe Welsh, though the evidence on those last two is somewhat thin. We boast about several Revolutionary War and pre-war Colonial historical ancestors. I think there is probably a wider circle of ancestors and ethnicity, but I don't believe the current DNA kits would shed much light, since I suspect (from seeing other peoples' data) that they don't have good DNA from many areas of the world. So they'd give me back the same partial history I already know. I have a few good English pipes, but no Dunhill or White Spots, which may verify my Scotch thrift. My taste for burley suggests a strong conversion to American culture. My dad smoked Granger continually while I was growing up. I loved my travels in England and Ireland, maybe a little twinge of home country in there somewhere, but still I'm strongly amalgamated into the U.S. American mix.

 

[timelord]

Well being Irish I think I have it covered with 95% (*) of my pipes being Peterson and smoking Old Dublin every three or four tins...

(*) not done the sums just a wild guestimate

p.s. Happy St David's Day. My sister-in-law is Welsh but this time of the year can be tricky as we're both rugby fans... ...although she knows full well I'll be supporting Wales when they play England

 

[haparnold]

I grew up in the heart of dark-fired country, and that varietal is well represented in my smokes. That’s about it.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Scots-Irish and Shawnee Indian.

What's Your Lineage? :: General Discussion

We all know that pipe smokers come from all walks of life, both genders, all races, blah blah blah, but where are you from? I'm a mix of Scots-Irish, and Shawnee Indian.

pipesmagazine.com

 

[cigrmaster]

My relatives came from Lithuania and the Ukraine. I also have some Mongolian in there as my great grandmother had Chinese eyes.
My tobacco and pipes buying have nothing to do with my heritage. I collect mostly American made pipes because they smoke great and I Like supporting our guys. I have never purchased a pipe from any of the Russian states.
My relatives mostly came to America in the early 1900's. One side of the family went to south Africa. One of my cousins from there is a dead wringer for my great grandmother with the Mongolian look as she has the same eyes.

 

[J.Henry845]

Irish & German/Hungarian heritage. Both grandfathers smoked a pipe before I was born or could remember. No connections to my daily pipe smoking. I only own 2 Petersons and zero German pipes.

 

[danish]

I may perhaps be described as an old snobbish anglophile bastard, when it comes to pipes and tobacco but genetically I am just an inbred Dane, smoking mostly Danish pipes and tobaccos, many of which have anglophile names though. I am not ‘celebrating’ my heritage by smoking on special days. I do however smoke on Thor’s days and Freja’s days, as well as any other day during the week.

 

[bullet08]

75% Korean, 25% Japanese. My maternal grandmother was Japanese. 100% card carrying 'Merican by choice. Big interests in Scottish-Irish Celtic culture. Peterson pipes, and Guinness are Irish gift to the human kind.

 

[prndl]

Am 3/4 Irish and 1/4 unmentionable. Therefore, all my pipes are Castellos.

Go figure.

 

[puff_not_snuff]

While I’m not practicing I was raised Irish catholic and I don’t think I’ll be ordering any presbyterian mixture.