Here my statement in agreement as a brother in Christ (Southern Baptist out in the Wild West of Arizona). There's nothing that is more rewarding to one's health, physically, mentally, and spiritually, than time spent in the Word of God, a good cup of coffee, and a pipe of your favorite blend. May God continue to bless you and yours. Thank you kindly for creating content that enlightens, educates, and encourages. ✝️
Bookshops, tobacco shops, an analog life, a slower more restful, quieter, peaceful time. A lot of time I feel as if I’ve overstayed my visit here. My time has passed. Progress. Change. Not all is good for us. I would like to go back. Can’t. So, time to go. I’ve been ready for a long time. Not now but won’t be long. I’m ok with that. Best of luck to the future.
I absolutely have been enjoying your videos today . I have just subscribed to your channel. I am a traditional latin mass catholic and soon to be pipe smoker . I currently enjoy smoking cigars and have for a few years now but want to try my hand at pipe smoking . Your channel has definetly convinced me to give it a try . Keep up the great content . May God bless you and your family. Maybe you could recommend a good pipe for me to start with .
I often find myself on my porch pipe in one hand staring into nothing pondering. Everything from what’s for dinner to my relationship with the Lord. The point is I do this to leave the stressful parts of my day outside my home so I don’t bring it inside to my family.
"You might find that smoke blown out cleared your mind of shadows within. Anyway, it gives patience, to listen to error without anger." -Gandalf talking to Saruman about why he smokes his pipe.
I am not much of a book reader , having dyslexia, or much of a pipe smoker. I just smoke a pipe occasionally. There is a book which I could not put down once I started it, just like a fine bowl of tobacco from a favorite pipe. The book is “ The Frontiersman “, by Allen W. Eckert. As a historian, you might like that book if you haven’t read it yet.
Sad to hear about the passing of Mr. Toledano, I used to have sleepovers as a kid at their beautiful home on Chestnut Street, growing up I was good friends with his son Macon, remember the smell of pipe tobacco when you walked into the house, Mr. Toledano was a very nice, generous and intelligent Man, Memento Mori
Good evening. Your channel popped up during one of my various UA-cam excursions. I thank Tolkien ( especially as he was a Traditional Catholic, and as I am) for introducing to the joy and grace filled tranquility of pipe smoking. That was many a decade ago. A Churchwarden filled with either an English or Oriental blend is my usual go to, but not exclusively. I look forward to cooler and colder weather in the autumn up here in the Texas of the North to more thoroughly enjoy some Shireweed. I do love the Deep South too, but I can’t take the heat and humidity anymore in my advancing decrepitude! 😄Sweet tea and catfish with hush puppies remembered!
I wholeheartedly agree with your enjoyment of your reading THE HAUNTED BOOKSHOP and recommend Christopher Morley s other titles. He and his likeminded friends often would walk about the neighborhoods in the New York environs. His many titles are a enjoyment to read both reflecting those walks recounting his so-called three hour lunches. He was a prolific writer whose thoughts are very much like your own. His experiences reflect upon times gone by but remain revenant I feel. There remains a sincerity of thinking that is rare in our society today.
Going to buy my first pipe tobacco this weekend. Have a vintage Dr. Grabow that I’ve had for years but am taking for its “maiden voyage.” Wish me luck.
For a cracking read, and an adventurous tale of espionage, detective work, and daring do I recommend Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu novels. The protagonist Denis Nayland-smith is an inveterate pipe smoker, always stuffing his pipe with his favourite oriental blend.
This video was packed with info! Thanks for letting me know about the Criswell Survey...I've found a copy of it online and do hope to read through it soon. And the excerpt from The Haunted Bookshop was wonderful. I read it a few years back, and found it to be thoughtful yet approachable reading. Similarly, I've found Sherlock Holmes novels and short stories to be the same quality of writing, whereas I always thought they'd be more dense and hard to understand than they actually are. Great video, sir!
Had a great experience recently, smoked some Bob’s Chocolate Flake in an Old German Clay while trying to keep up with a priest’s injunction to read a chapter of the Gospel a day. Interestingly, I liked BCF *much* better that time.
Thanks for sharing, Doc! Beautiful Dunhills - the 4S means Group 4 size in Shell briar finish; F/T stands for 'fishtail' stem; and I believe LB indicates the Large Billiard shape. Pipedia has a good resource for dating Dunhills and dispelling the codes that's worth checking out. Wishing you and the family a wonderful weekend!!
Thanks for this time, friend. In this world, a lot of books are not read or uncovered. My theory is that in the light of infinite time, all will be read at some point. In this life or the next ones perhaps. Let us build literary works for eternity! A long term payout awaits.
Love the pipes! I have read the Haunted Bookshop several months ago but I read the prequel “Parnassus on Wheels” it’s very entertaining. Thanks for sharing.
I read the Haunted Bookshop a few weeks ago after watching a video about the tobacco with the same name. Like you said, an easy read. Aside from the detailed observations and description of pipe smokers, Morley also made some made a few seeminly self deprecating jabs at the world of academia. Consider the following: "....lost within his academic robe and hood, nervously fidgeting his mortar-bard, haled forward by usheers, and tottering rubescent before the chancellor, provost, presidte (or whoever it might be) who hands out the diploma." Anyone who lives in the odd world of academia, particularly those of us who don't quite fit the mold, will likely appreciate that quote.
I want to start smoking pipe, but I can’t get out the idea that the pipes stems (vulcanite or acrylic) are probably very toxic. Rubber or plastic in contact with hot smoke for a long period of time is probably way worst than the tobacco itself. I don’t know if this is true, what do you think about it?
Don't worry about that so much. the purpose of pipe smoking is not to "hotbox" the pipe, smoking as fast as possible, but a more mentally contientous carefull slow burn, taking in sips of smoke from the stem to both taste the nuances of the tobacco, while smelling the varied fragrances inherit of a good blend. a lit bowl will get considerablly warm during smoking, but if it is getting too hot to the touch, causing a hot smoke, you are unknowingly hotboxing the pipe which can damage your pipes over time, and leave your enjoyment somewhat lacking. on a more mechanical/scientific note to further calm your doubts, the smoke from tobacco while smoking forms a micro film in the air channel that coats the air channel from the base material of the plastic/acrylic stem. (hence the need to use a pipe cleaner occasionally to clean the air channel from excessive smoke/debris buildup.) so the chances of you actually drawing anything through the air channel other than pipe smoke is very incredibly slim. I'd be more worried about drawing stray microplastics/toxins from a simple burger joint disposeable paper wrapped soda straw, than from smoking a tobacco pipe. If you are still concerned, i think most of us would suggest that you slow down your burn, be mindfull of the pipe during your leisure activity, relax and enjoy the moment...it's a journey not a race.
I would like to say thank you for your suggestion to try kentucy fired and some burley blends. They're my favorite now and way better than the aromatics I was smoking Haunted bookshop is probably my new go-to favorite blend. MB HHburley, Fire Storm, Chenets Cake. Bayou Night and Peterson irish whiskey all fantastic.
Likely the surface rust is due to the paper wrapper holding humidity. A sealed can should be fine inside, the plastic lid stored on the bottom, you open the top with a can opener then use the plastic lid to cover it while you use it. I had one like that once, different brand. Nice pipes, I prefer billiards and bulldogs. I have a four old favourite billiards I rotate through every other day, (Three Brighams and a Consul) then an old leather wrapped bulldog and a pouch of Erinmore that stays in the truck for times I'm away from home and no other pipe with me.
If you ever need a rosary for travel there’s an awesome company named rugged rosaries that make “battle beads”, which are made as exact copies of the govt issue rosaries for soldiers during WWI, if I have that correct - I have one in one of their carrying boxes that I keep on my person.
I would like to start smoking a pipe, but I do not know where to begin. I don’t know what type of tobacco or what type of pipe to get. Can anyone give me some advice?
my question for today is, Is there a collated internet resource that connects to many business tobacconists across the country that sell product directly to the consumer? so far i've only located 2 shops that ship to my location. I reside in what could be colloquilly known as a "pipe smoking desert", lots of cigarette shops with the usual tiny generic stock of pouched codger blends, and bulk bags of the usual name brand suspects, but no dedicated tobacconists shops near my area of Arkansas that provide the ability to ship directly to my door. Any help from the community would be greatly appreciated.
Christoper Morley's literary output was voluminous (pardon the pun), but it slowed down noticeably upon his enduring of several strokes. He was a great Sherlock Holmes fan and, I believe, one of the original Baker Street Irregulars (the most noted and enduring of the Sherlock Holmes societies). He was also a devoted pipe smoker. I haven't read The Haunted Bookstore yet, but I plan to acquire a copy very soon, thanks to your recommendation. As his death approached, he left the following advice to his friends and family: "Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of a unanimity."
What is that beautiful pipe on your thumbnail for this video? I would recommend to you the books of Joel Salatin. There is a movement among mostly conservatives to change how we relate to the land. You might enjoy it.
When I describe my environmental stance I usually say "I'm a conservationist not an environmentalist" because a conservationist is an environmentalist that knows what they are talking about.
Ironically, the most land and nature conscious people I know, ones who actually live in and among nature, who have a first hand, real world experience with nature and desire to preserve it, are conservatives.
One unique thing about DUNHILL pipes is that the year of manufacture is encoded on each one. The two you have look to be cerca 1950s-70s. If it hasn’t been buffed out, there will be a number immediately after the D of “MADE IN ENGLAND”. If it is superscript 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or 0 (and likely underlined), it was shaped in 1955-60, respectively. If superscript 1-4, 1961-64. If 5-0, same size as the D, and not underlined, 1965-70. By sight, I would guess both the LB and the 6LBS are from the mid-1960s.
This is actually a really complicated questions. The simple and easy answer is no. But what exactly is good for the body? Water is good but every other drink could be said to not be good. What foods are good for the body? Should a person never eat dessert type food? Or never eat anything that is deemed not good? Stress can be really bad for the body. So if smoking a pipe reduces a person’s stress maybe that outweighs the bad? Like I said, it’s complicated.
A Rosary in 1 hand and a pipe in the other...👍👍👍
Bless you!
Amen
Here my statement in agreement as a brother in Christ (Southern Baptist out in the Wild West of Arizona). There's nothing that is more rewarding to one's health, physically, mentally, and spiritually, than time spent in the Word of God, a good cup of coffee, and a pipe of your favorite blend. May God continue to bless you and yours. Thank you kindly for creating content that enlightens, educates, and encourages. ✝️
“On land, at sea, at home, abroad;
I smoke my pipe and worship God.”
-Johann Sebastian Bach
Bookshops, tobacco shops, an analog life, a slower more restful, quieter, peaceful time. A lot of time I feel as if I’ve overstayed my visit here. My time has passed. Progress. Change. Not all is good for us. I would like to go back. Can’t. So, time to go. I’ve been ready for a long time. Not now but won’t be long. I’m ok with that. Best of luck to the future.
Fantastic attitude towards life
I'm 91 years old and live alone and totally agree with you-----
Go well with grace. God bless
The future........they can have it
About to buy my first pipe - probably a cob.
Getting baptized tomorrow.
New fan :)
Praise God! Excited to have you as a member of the Body! God bless you
Thank you Alan , really enjoy your talks on life , fan from England 🇬🇧 👍
I absolutely have been enjoying your videos today . I have just subscribed to your channel. I am a traditional latin mass catholic and soon to be pipe smoker . I currently enjoy smoking cigars and have for a few years now but want to try my hand at pipe smoking . Your channel has definetly convinced me to give it a try . Keep up the great content . May God bless you and your family. Maybe you could recommend a good pipe for me to start with .
I often find myself on my porch pipe in one hand staring into nothing pondering. Everything from what’s for dinner to my relationship with the Lord. The point is I do this to leave the stressful parts of my day outside my home so I don’t bring it inside to my family.
"You might find that smoke blown out cleared your mind of shadows within. Anyway, it gives patience, to listen to error without anger." -Gandalf talking to Saruman about why he smokes his pipe.
Enjoying my evening walnut maple pie while enjoying your video. Thanks.
I am not much of a book reader , having dyslexia, or much of a pipe smoker. I just smoke a pipe occasionally. There is a book which I could not put down once I started it, just like a fine bowl of tobacco from a favorite pipe. The book is “ The Frontiersman “, by Allen W. Eckert. As a historian, you might like that book if you haven’t read it yet.
Based. Thanks for treating us with some great tobacco at the Creator's Conference!
Thanks Alan. I love your channel. Inspiring to say the least.
Your little talks are inspirational and I noticed your "American Battlefield Trust" hat!! I'm a member!!
Hmm can`t help you with the year of the pipe from that code. However, I believe 4S...size 4, Shell briar- rough finish, F/T...fishtail
You hit the nail right on the head! Well done, Sir!!!! 😀😊
Thank you, Dr. Alan. Just watched your 2015 talk on southern music and loved it! Peace and blessings to you
Sad to hear about the passing of Mr. Toledano, I used to have sleepovers as a kid at their beautiful home on Chestnut Street, growing up I was good friends with his son Macon, remember the smell of pipe tobacco when you walked into the house, Mr. Toledano was a very nice, generous and intelligent Man, Memento Mori
Good evening. Your channel popped up during one of my various UA-cam excursions. I thank Tolkien ( especially as he was a Traditional Catholic, and as I am) for introducing to the joy and grace filled tranquility of pipe smoking. That was many a decade ago. A Churchwarden filled with either an English or Oriental blend is my usual go to, but not exclusively. I look forward to cooler and colder weather in the autumn up here in the Texas of the North to more thoroughly enjoy some Shireweed. I do love the Deep South too, but I can’t take the heat and humidity anymore in my advancing decrepitude! 😄Sweet tea and catfish with hush puppies remembered!
I wholeheartedly agree with your enjoyment of your reading THE HAUNTED BOOKSHOP and recommend Christopher Morley s other titles. He and his likeminded friends often would walk about the neighborhoods in the New York environs. His many titles are a enjoyment to read both reflecting those walks recounting his so-called three hour lunches. He was a prolific writer whose thoughts are very much like your own. His experiences reflect upon times gone by but remain revenant I feel. There remains a sincerity of thinking that is rare in our society today.
Going to buy my first pipe tobacco this weekend. Have a vintage Dr. Grabow that I’ve had for years but am taking for its “maiden voyage.” Wish me luck.
It may not be the best for the body, but it certainly is for the soul! Great video.
I don't know man. Stress is a physiological killer and pipe smoking washes the stress away!
@@LTorni good point!
We have been programmed to forget tobacco is a medicine
@@Ram-dq1gqor a known carcinogen
Great video, buddy! Hope, you and the family are well.
Amen, PA! Fancy 'seeing' you in a place like this! 😉
For a cracking read, and an adventurous tale of espionage, detective work, and daring do I recommend Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu novels. The protagonist Denis Nayland-smith is an inveterate pipe smoker, always stuffing his pipe with his favourite oriental blend.
This video was packed with info! Thanks for letting me know about the Criswell Survey...I've found a copy of it online and do hope to read through it soon. And the excerpt from The Haunted Bookshop was wonderful. I read it a few years back, and found it to be thoughtful yet approachable reading. Similarly, I've found Sherlock Holmes novels and short stories to be the same quality of writing, whereas I always thought they'd be more dense and hard to understand than they actually are. Great video, sir!
Yes sir!
Had a great experience recently, smoked some Bob’s Chocolate Flake in an Old German Clay while trying to keep up with a priest’s injunction to read a chapter of the Gospel a day. Interestingly, I liked BCF *much* better that time.
What are your thoughts on German jaeger pipes?
Thanks for sharing, Doc! Beautiful Dunhills - the 4S means Group 4 size in Shell briar finish; F/T stands for 'fishtail' stem; and I believe LB indicates the Large Billiard shape. Pipedia has a good resource for dating Dunhills and dispelling the codes that's worth checking out. Wishing you and the family a wonderful weekend!!
Excellent choice of hat! Love The American battlefield trust is a great organization
Thanks for this time, friend.
In this world, a lot of books are not read or uncovered. My theory is that in the light of infinite time, all will be read at some point. In this life or the next ones perhaps. Let us build literary works for eternity! A long term payout awaits.
Love the pipes! I have read the Haunted Bookshop several months ago but I read the prequel “Parnassus on Wheels” it’s very entertaining.
Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful pipes Alan!
You should eventually do a series on the civil war!
I would like to see that too. 👍
I read the Haunted Bookshop a few weeks ago after watching a video about the tobacco with the same name. Like you said, an easy read. Aside from the detailed observations and description of pipe smokers, Morley also made some made a few seeminly self deprecating jabs at the world of academia. Consider the following: "....lost within his academic robe and hood, nervously fidgeting his mortar-bard, haled forward by usheers, and tottering rubescent before the chancellor, provost, presidte (or whoever it might be) who hands out the diploma."
Anyone who lives in the odd world of academia, particularly those of us who don't quite fit the mold, will likely appreciate that quote.
I want to start smoking pipe, but I can’t get out the idea that the pipes stems (vulcanite or acrylic) are probably very toxic. Rubber or plastic in contact with hot smoke for a long period of time is probably way worst than the tobacco itself.
I don’t know if this is true, what do you think about it?
If the smoke is hot, you’re not doing it right.
Been pipe smoking 6 months and never had a situation where the stem got that hot. You’ll be fine. Get a pipe.
Don't worry about that so much. the purpose of pipe smoking is not to "hotbox" the pipe, smoking as fast as possible, but a more mentally contientous carefull slow burn, taking in sips of smoke from the stem to both taste the nuances of the tobacco, while smelling the varied fragrances inherit of a good blend. a lit bowl will get considerablly warm during smoking, but if it is getting too hot to the touch, causing a hot smoke, you are unknowingly hotboxing the pipe which can damage your pipes over time, and leave your enjoyment somewhat lacking.
on a more mechanical/scientific note to further calm your doubts, the smoke from tobacco while smoking forms a micro film in the air channel that coats the air channel from the base material of the plastic/acrylic stem. (hence the need to use a pipe cleaner occasionally to clean the air channel from excessive smoke/debris buildup.) so the chances of you actually drawing anything through the air channel other than pipe smoke is very incredibly slim. I'd be more worried about drawing stray microplastics/toxins from a simple burger joint disposeable paper wrapped soda straw, than from smoking a tobacco pipe.
If you are still concerned, i think most of us would suggest that you slow down your burn, be mindfull of the pipe during your leisure activity, relax and enjoy the moment...it's a journey not a race.
I think you need to become a man
Great video as always brother what is meant by “root” briar? Thanks and God bless! ✝️🇺🇸
I would like to say thank you for your suggestion to try kentucy fired and some burley blends. They're my favorite now and way better than the aromatics I was smoking Haunted bookshop is probably my new go-to favorite blend. MB HHburley, Fire Storm, Chenets Cake. Bayou Night and Peterson irish whiskey all fantastic.
Likely the surface rust is due to the paper wrapper holding humidity. A sealed can should be fine inside, the plastic lid stored on the bottom, you open the top with a can opener then use the plastic lid to cover it while you use it. I had one like that once, different brand. Nice pipes, I prefer billiards and bulldogs. I have a four old favourite billiards I rotate through every other day, (Three Brighams and a Consul) then an old leather wrapped bulldog and a pouch of Erinmore that stays in the truck for times I'm away from home and no other pipe with me.
Honest....aye!
Wrong side of the Pacific to join you on your retreat, enjoy!
Hello, whats the pipe used on the thumbnail?
Fwiw. Can't beat a Missouri meerschaum corncob pipe ..
Man open that tobacco. I’d have to open it!!!! Nice pipes you acquired also!!!
If you haven't already read it and you love the classics please read Emily Wilson's " The Iliad"
If you ever need a rosary for travel there’s an awesome company named rugged rosaries that make “battle beads”, which are made as exact copies of the govt issue rosaries for soldiers during WWI, if I have that correct - I have one in one of their carrying boxes that I keep on my person.
I would like to start smoking a pipe, but I do not know where to begin. I don’t know what type of tobacco or what type of pipe to get. Can anyone give me some advice?
my question for today is, Is there a collated internet resource that connects to many business tobacconists across the country that sell product directly to the consumer? so far i've only located 2 shops that ship to my location. I reside in what could be colloquilly known as a "pipe smoking desert", lots of cigarette shops with the usual tiny generic stock of pouched codger blends, and bulk bags of the usual name brand suspects, but no dedicated tobacconists shops near my area of Arkansas that provide the ability to ship directly to my door. Any help from the community would be greatly appreciated.
May I ask what your idea price for a pipe?
You can get really nice, high quality pipes in the 200-300 dollar range.
I would recommend savenelli for just a good quality long lasting pipe. They are around 100$ and are on Amazon.
Good video! Very enjoyable!
Some nice pipes there sir. I would be very interested to hear what that Tobacco is like. Lets hope you are in for a nice surprise.
Are you near Charleston, SC? I from/live in Charleston.. Born and raised a street over from the banks of the Ashley Cooper River
Christoper Morley's literary output was voluminous (pardon the pun), but it slowed down noticeably upon his enduring of several strokes. He was a great Sherlock Holmes fan and, I believe, one of the original Baker Street Irregulars (the most noted and enduring of the Sherlock Holmes societies). He was also a devoted pipe smoker. I haven't read The Haunted Bookstore yet, but I plan to acquire a copy very soon, thanks to your recommendation. As his death approached, he left the following advice to his friends and family:
"Read, every day, something no one else is reading.
Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.
Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do.
It is bad for the mind to be always part of a unanimity."
Love that quote!! Thank you for sharing. 👍🏻
Eccentric is what I have been called. Purist is another adjective.
That’s me!
Awesome video ❤
What is that beautiful pipe on your thumbnail for this video?
I would recommend to you the books of Joel Salatin. There is a movement among mostly conservatives to change how we relate to the land. You might enjoy it.
Always something to do for the chickens when you have chickens.
When I describe my environmental stance I usually say "I'm a conservationist not an environmentalist" because a conservationist is an environmentalist that knows what they are talking about.
I want to find out if you can smoke that (backah) in that water damage tin can. I never seen it seal with that big of wax either.
You sound a bit like Forrest Gum and i like it 😊
Professor Harrelson,
Might you be live streaming the event October 4th weekend for members?
please create an instructional video on how to brush your teeth and maintain oral hygiene after smoking a pipe.
Gosh, what Tobacconist would that be??? 🤔
Ironically, the most land and nature conscious people I know, ones who actually live in and among nature, who have a first hand, real world experience with nature and desire to preserve it, are conservatives.
More fun videos! I really enjoyed this.
Enjoyed this very much👍🏽
I havent watched you in ages ! i am glad you re doing well!
Natural Conservation is great, but environmentalism sucks.
One unique thing about DUNHILL pipes is that the year of manufacture is encoded on each one. The two you have look to be cerca 1950s-70s. If it hasn’t been buffed out, there will be a number immediately after the D of “MADE IN ENGLAND”. If it is superscript 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or 0 (and likely underlined), it was shaped in 1955-60, respectively. If superscript 1-4, 1961-64. If 5-0, same size as the D, and not underlined, 1965-70. By sight, I would guess both the LB and the 6LBS are from the mid-1960s.
It is good for the body, though?
Unlike cigarettes, the pipe smoke doesn't enter your lungs, so it does no measurable harm.
This is actually a really complicated questions. The simple and easy answer is no.
But what exactly is good for the body? Water is good but every other drink could be said to not be good. What foods are good for the body? Should a person never eat dessert type food? Or never eat anything that is deemed not good?
Stress can be really bad for the body. So if smoking a pipe reduces a person’s stress maybe that outweighs the bad?
Like I said, it’s complicated.
@joelpenley9791 Perfect answer though!
You do you and I’ll do me ……when I feel differently I change things . I assume you will do the same .
@@benniebarrow348 Sadly, a libertine philosophy that has allowed America to descend to what it is. Just answer the question with no and move on.
Have you tried the new sun bear?