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The Greater Kansas City Pipe Club, GKCPC, is a social group whose members enjoy Pipes, Tobaccos, and Pipe Collecting. Our collections range from a handful to over 4,000 pipes.
We gather monthly and swap tales and pipes, share a good smoke, feature programs on various pipe subjects, sample tobaccos, and occasionally a enjoy distributor's trunk show.
We also host the KANSAS CITY PIPE AND TOBACCO SHOW ---->
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3rd Thursday
8pm - 10pm
Cigar & Tabac, Ltd.
6898 West 105th Street
Overland Park, KS
913-381-5597
For details check
Coming Events
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1. REMINDER: Next Meeting on February 23, 2012!! This is a week later than usual!!
2. The program has not been announced yet but should be out shortly.
3. The latest issue of Pipes & Tobacco magazine featured a major article on member Anthony Harris and the construction of two chamber pipes.
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We recently received this note from Louise Pavonetti Jones of Hermit Tobacco.
Dear Fellow Pipe Smokers,
“Another day in Paradise” is how we started each new day. On November 16, 2011 Jay Jones ascended to a Paradise like no other. With serene grace and dignity Jay died peacefully in the comfort of his home, embraced in love and devotion. Truly a reflection of all he believed in.
Jay also believed in Hermit Tobacco Works Company. Together, with a simple pipe originally owned by Captain Earle, Jay and I envisioned and built our company over the years. Attending pipe shows, designing our website, and blending some of the finest tobacco blends ever. Jay was a Master of them all.
We would end each day with “Live life to the fullest” and this is what I wish to share with you all. Hermit Tobacco will continue to be part of the Briar Brotherhood. To honor our gentle art of smoking, to appreciate all the uniqueness we have as pipe smokers and to relish each moment we have with our pipes, our tobacco and our friends.
Thank you all for your kind words and sincere condolences. Thank you for your continued support of Hermit Tobacco Works Company.
Sincerely,
Louise Pavonetti Jones
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June 23-24, 2012
SHOW FLYER / HOTEL FLYER
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DoubleTree Hotel, Overland Park, KS
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Featuring American Pipe Makers and the 3rd Annual Carver's Contest
Doubletree Hotel
10100 College Blvd.
Overland Park, KS 66210
Room Reservations: $89 per night
Phone 1-913-451-6100
Ask for the Greater KC Pipe Club Block
There's a major convention in KC that week-end so you will want to book early!!
Fred Hanna with His Doctor of Pipes Award
Fred Hanna to be Guest Speaker at 2012 Pipe Show
The GKCPC is proud to announce that Fred Hanna will be our guest speaker at the 2012 Pipe Show. Fred Hanna is one of the great figures in the pipe smoking and collecting hobby.
Fred Hanna began smoking a pipe in 1967. By 1974 he was smoking and collecting high grades and by 1975 he was collecting Charatan straight grains exclusively. Soon after, he was working in a pipe and tobacco retail shop for several years. Fred is best known for his provocative and thoughtful articles published in Pipes and Tobaccos magazine and The Pipe Collector, newsletter of the North American Society of Pipe Collectors (NASPC).
Fred has applied his unique approach to pipe smoking and collecting in a variety of ways, being the originator of popular methods such as air pocket packing, the pipe mud technique, and tin baking, which is a method for simulating the aging process or otherwise improving many tobaccos. Fred has been a guest speaker for pipe clubs from Baltimore and Minneapolis to Denver and Seattle, as well as having been a speaker for the Chicago and Las Vegas Pipe Shows. Some of his articles focused upon how to taste tobacco blends; a compilation of a quiz for pipe collectors; pipe smoking and problem solving; briar vs. brand; and he wrote a humorous essay on expensive pipe tampers that had the pipe world in stitches. Fred was named Member number 50 of the Pipe Smokers Hall of Fame, and was honored with the prestigious title of Doctor of Pipes by the Chicagoland Pipe Collectors Club in 2010.
His award winning collection of straight grain pipes is well known among collectors. Perhaps his finest achievement was the blending of two highly regarded tobacco blends, Legends and Wilderness, both of which are commercially available from the McClelland Tobacco Company. Fred is currently nearing completion of a book with the tentative title of, The Quest for the Perfect Smoke: Pipe Smoking for Contentment, Contemplation, and Community.
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