The Briar Files

The Chokwe peoples occupy the broad expanse of open savanna in present-day Angola and Democratic Republic of Congo. During the eightee...

From jimbenton.com . Many years ago I mentioned to someone that I preferred bent pipes to straight, and was told that bents are too pret...

Readers of this blog know that I have previously written about both William Gillette and Sherlock Holmes on more than one occasion, so I thi...

click to enlarge English and Scotch Soldiers/Soldats Anglais et Escosais. Private Men of the 95th Rifles, 71st Highlanders, and a cor...

From Pop Sonnets .

Bottled History from Smith Journal on Vimeo . A short film about pipe-smoking ship-in-a-bottle artist Ray Gascoigne.

click to enlarge From The Hole Book (Peter Newell, 1908) at The Public Domain Review .

 Sign outside Zion, Illinois, ca. 1915. via In Medias Res

click to enlarge On the anniversary of air conditioning at OUPblog .

all photos click to enlarge Some photos of a sculpture of a pipe-smoking man playing fetch with his dogs.  At an animal hospital...

30 Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes For Your Next Existential Crisis

Planet’s strongest shamans gather in Tuva for landmark festival . Might not be pipe related, but it has a cool photo at the top.

I haven't updated my online tobacco cellar in quite some time, but it's still there to give anyone who cares an idea of what I like ...

Mr West, and his fine moustache, on a duck shooting trip in Sindh, India. From a British holiday album, 1906, with more here: bit.ly/U5b...

15 manly smells from The Art of Manliness . I'm not certain the person writing the article is really that familiar with pipe smoking. ...

I used to love smoking different latakia blends, but slowly turned toward more Perique-oriented tobaccos and now prefer them.  But, I've...

"The Zaporozhian Cossacks write a letter to the Sultan of Turkey" by Ilya Repin (1844-1930). Wikipedia link . Click to enla...

This has nothing to do with pipe-smoking, but I thought it was amusing and interesting.  Sometimes, when everything is just right, a convent...

But new to me, because I just found out. Three Nuns is back in the U.S . I've looked around, and it's available now from a wide ...

Here we get a glimpse into a home of the Copenhagen Golden Age, where the son of the house (the future Professor Christian Jürgensen) ha...