427. The NASPC Columbus Pipe Show with the Rev. “Bulldog” Streeper
PSAs ZIPPO STERLING ARMOR Commemorative Lighter invoices have gone out. If you requested a lighter and didn’t get an invoice (check your spam box) drop me a line. We’re sending the order to Zippo tomorrow (Monday) around 12:30pm CDT. Production takes approximately four weeks, so they should be ready to mail out at the end of November--the same time as the PPN POYs become available. PPN’s 3rd PIPE OF THE YEAR the 309 System Spigot, is in production this week, with our final number at 175 pipes! I'll be forwarding the appropriate purchase code to those on the list when the pipes are ready. With the code, they can then make their purchases at SPC or SPEu around the end of November or beginning of December. GLEN WHELAN at K&P has recently been appointed Managing Director. Glen and his father Tony Whelan, Jr. (Factory Manager until his retirement), have made Peterson their professional lives and given us richly of their talent, enthusiasm, and industry. I hope you'll join me in wishing Glen and his family joy. If you ever get the chance to meet Glen in person, you'll understand all over again why Peterson is such a great place to work, as his enthusiasm is absolutely infectious. The NASPC or Columbus Pipe Show began thirty-one years ago as part of the original Ohio Pipe Collectors club mission, which was to produce a newsletter and annual show. The OPC became the NASPC (North American Society of Pipe Smokers), and under the skilled leadership of Regis McCafferty and the late Bill Unger, grew from a club to one of the foremost associations of pipe smokers in the world. Bill edited their “newsletter,” The Pipe Collector, until his death, and it has for decades appeared bimonthly as a 60+ page compendium of its members writings. It was Bill who helped me venture into the world of writing about pipes and my first pieces appeared in TPC. It has included contributions by many of the most foremost names in the hobby here in the US, including novelist Regis McCafferty, Rich Esserman (known for his encyclopedic knowledge of the hobby), Marty Pulvers, Rick Newcombe, Steve “Pipestud” Fallon, Fred Hanna, Mark Munroe Dion, Eugene Umberger and many more. With the passing of Pipes & tobaccos Magazine, the decline of literacy and move away from print media, The Pipe Collector is one of the last bastions where thinking men can read on paper about their hobby. This morning I’m happy to finally bring you the Rev. "Bulldog" Streeper's report on last August’s show, which he sent ages ago (see Post #410's "Collector's Corner" on Streeper). He agreed on very short notice to be the Pete Geek Ambassador for the show, bringing with him fellow Pete Geeks Tim Ong and Tim Hynick. If Mr. Ong and Mr. Hynick will send me their email addresses, they've got Ambassador Merit Badges waiting for them! The NASPC 2024 Columbus Pipe Show Report by Rev. C.W. “Bulldog” Streeper, CPG The…