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PSA (Peterson Service Announcement) The CPG System Pipe Update. If you have sent an email to petegeek1895@afinemess.org to get in the queue for a pipe you should have received a response. If not, please email me again.  If you haven't sent me an email and want a pipe, email me at the above address. Be advised the System pipe will be sterling-mounted and run somewhere between $150 and $250, depending on the options. The pipes will be numbered and stamped CPG or CPG2022. I don't have any other details yet but will send out an email when I do. If you buy a pipe, you're eligible for the CPG certificate, and if you're already a CPG a merit badge will be added to your certificate. Chicago Pipe Show. I've heard from a few Pete Geeks who will be attending the world's greatest pipe show over Memorial Day weekend. If you  are going and haven't done so, please email me. We're going to get together for a pipe on Friday in the smoking tent after dinner. CPG merit badges and/or CPG certificates will be given to attendees!   “My Lad[ies] Nicotine”: Beth Kanaley, Silver Gray & Peterson Pipes I’ve been mentored by women at many of the most important junctures of my life: my grandmother, who taught me how to bait a hook and how to blow my nose in the woods without a handkerchief. My mother, who is not only a close counselor but was wise enough to point out the woman I should marry (which I did). My wife, Mo anam cara of 42 years who has always promoted my pipe-smoking and more or less raised me from a chimp, teaching me at an early stage how to boil water (fact). But it was Beth Kanaley who taught me how to find the right tobaccos, how to select and break in a new pipe, how to find the right tobaccos and what it means to be a pipeman—or woman. I say “woman” because there are precious few of those among us, which makes me wonder why that is so. To answer the question I turned to Silver Gray, who erudition equals her talent as a pipe maker. Beth Kanaley was the great luminary of Tulsa, Oklahoma’s world of pipes, a “fixed point in a changing world,” as Holmes said of Watson. She was born in 1928 and at the age of 33, she and her husband Ted opened a shop in downtown Tulsa, where they rented space in the Court Arcade Building at Sixth & Boulder. Two years later they were doing well enough to justify their own storefront, moving just a block to Seventh & Boulder, within walking distance of my old downtown high school. Ted’s Pipe Shoppe has always been renowned—at least in Oklahoma—for its proprietary hand-blended tobaccos, which were a passion for its namesake owner. “Ted used to blend tobacco from barrels in our garage,” Beth told me, “so it was very natural for us to…