From: Steve Masticola (??????????????????????????)
Subject: New York Sailormen and Pennsylvania Dutch

Well, folks, my neck is almost healed, I'm still fighting it out with the
health insurance, and I'm going to try once more to visit the New York Pipe
Club's meeting this Tuesday. It's at the usual place (La Bonne Soupe, 48 W.
55th St.) at 6 PM. Please let me know if you'd like to come along or
rendezvous up there - there are bargains, good food, and good fellowship to
be had!

I learned something surprising this weekend, while stuck in a traffic jam on
Route 30, east of Lancaster, PA. Along the side of the road, a group of ten
or so Amish farmers were harvesting a fine-looking crop of Pennsylvania
tobacco. (Didn't even know they grew tabak in PA - nor even what it was
until my friend identified it for me!) They were, of course, using two
horses and a buckboard as their only machinery, and seemed a bit shy about
being gawked at by the "English". Quite a few of the barns in the area are
built for tobacco curing - they have narrow, high vertical boards which can
be moved around to control airflow.

Also in the Something New Every Day Dept: Sailorman Jack, of the New York
Pipe Club, writes that used pipe cleaners can be re-used to initially clean
a pipe, following up with fresh cleaners. Claims Joe Tannenbaum of NYPC:
"The pipe doesn't know the difference." Sailorman claims to have reduced his
pipe cleaner consumption by 75% - while getting his pipes just as clean.
(NYPC Newsletter, August 1989).

I'll probably be getting very busy after the next meeting, and don't know
how many more of them I can make in the next few months. So, I hope some of
the Greater New York (i.e., Entire East Coast, according to NYC :-) crowd
can attend and join me for a pipe or two. Until next time, then, hope I can
hear from you on the mailgroup, and as always,

					Smoke in peace,
					~\U Steve.


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