442. SPECIAL BULLETIN: The 2025 St. Patrick’s Day Pipes Drop This Tuesday
PSAs The Chicago Pipe Show will be held May 1st – 4th. On Friday May 2nd, Glen Whelan, Managing Direction at Peterson, will join the Pete Geeks and Pipe Smokers of Ireland for a “Pete Geek Meet” from 12 to 2 in the secondary SMOKING tent. At 2pm I’ll be presenting “‘A Perfect Pipe’:
441. Peterson & Mac Baren Tobacco: A Memoir
Of course you’ve heard that Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG) bought Mac Baren last summer and is dismantling the Mac Baren factory.* It’s been everywhere in the hobby news, on vlogs, forums, and passed by word-of-mouth. Anytime something like this happens to a community as small as ours, it causes some seismic tremors. I remember running
440. A Conversation with Steve Mawby, Pete Geek (and Director of Sales at Smokingpipes.com)
Banner: Two of Steve’s favorites, his beloved 53 and his 01 System DeLuxe This morning I’m in my full-on fanboy mode, so be prepared. Smoke strong tobacco. Drink strong coffee. Throw on your best Irish kilt & don’t be afraid of the breeze—Éirinn go Brách! Some believe the Irish invented the kilt. I’m always in
439. Remembering the Petes of 2024
It’s almost funny, me wanting to forget the Everything That Happened, when that was exactly where I was still stuck. Maybe the only way to get unstuck was to remember. –Allie Millington, Olivetti (2024) First, this is not about FOMO—“fear of missing out”—and neither is it about PPAD—“Peterson Pipe Acquisition Disorder.” So if you
438. A Peterson Stocking Stuffer: the Rare 1978-79 Peterson-Glass Catalog
Ó, tagaig’ uile is adhraigí An leanbh cneasta sa chró ‘na luí Is cuimhnígí ar ghrá an Rí A thug dár saoradh anocht an Naí. ‘S a Mhuire Mháthair i bParrthas Dé, Ar chlann bhocht Éabha guigh ‘nois go caomh, Is doras an chró ná dún go deo Go n-adhram’ feasta Mac Mhuire Ógh. Good
437. A Visual History of the Christmas Pipes 2009-2024
Pictured in banner above: the first three Peterson Christmas pipes, from 2009 – 2011 Santa’s Little Helpers, the 304 Christmas pipe 2019 Almost every year during Advent or the first week of Christmas, we read or listen to Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, which against all odds hit the book stalls on December 19, 1843.
