From: Paul Baumgartel <???????????????>
Subject: Pipes Digest

Dear Steve,

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I thought I would pass along a pleasant cigar-smoking surprise in the form of 
the Bering Cazadores.  These are quite inexpensive, and don't have the most 
elegant-looking wrapper, but they have a nice draw, burn evenly, and taste 
pretty good (outstanding...and, they are mild!).  

Also, for anyone who is in or near midtown Manhattan, the JR Tobacco retail 
store is a great place to buy singles to try.  The prices are lower than in 
most shops, and they often have in stock brands that are out of stock in the 
catalog warehouse in North Carolina.  The store is on 45th between Madison and
5th.  I'm fortunate enough to be on a consulting assignment on 45th just a 
couple of blocks away.

There were a few postings on alt.smokers.cigars over the last couple of 
weeks regarding tobacco farms in Connecticut.  I wonder if there's anyone 
else on the net who worked on those farms, as I did.  When I was growing 
up in a town in the Farmington River valley, there were many more 
independent shade tobacco farms than there are now, and they employed 14- 
and 15-year-old boys and girls each summer.  The boys picked the leaves and 
packed them into canvas baskets; the girls worked in the sheds, stringing the 
leaves onto laths which were then hung from beams.  I will always remember 
the aroma emanating from sheds while the natural-gas heaters on the shed floor 
warmed the air to aid in drying the leaves...wonderful!  Maybe that's why I 
took up cigars 25 years later! 

Many thanks for your help.  Keep up the great work!

Yours in the smokers' brotherhood,

Paul

| Paul Baumgartel                                                 |
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