Hello from Chesapeake Bay

[Tarot]

Howdy All, joined the forum to learn, especially about prebigbusiness tobacco. The Sherlock Holmes thread was fascinating, also want to know more about Native American tobacco use. Have a great day.

 

[webmost]

Good morning and let me be the first to welcome.

Where on the beautiful Chesapeake are you? I am here in neighboring Dull-Aware. If you're on the western shore, take a peek at the Virginia Wine and Cigar Trail. Several great members on this board from Virginia and Merryland.

 

[Rickey60]

Welcome Tarot.

 

[Knucklehead]

Welcome to the forum. What's your tobacco intake of choice, cigar, cigarette, pipe, dip, snus? Do you plan to grow your own? There's a lot of info to be found here, enjoy your journey.

 

[leverhead]

Welcome!

 

[Jitterbugdude]

The Chesapeake Bay... the land of pleasant living.
Welcome!

 

[winston-smoker]

Welcome, Tarot. Native Americans used tobacco ritually, but the "elites" smoked it "recreationally," just like we do. Until mass produced cigarettes came along, tobacco was mostly a rich man's luxury.

 

[indianjoe]

Welcome to the forum Tarot, you will find the most comprehensive mass of information about tobacco that exists here on THE forum.

 

[MarcL]

Howdy naber. Welcome to the form.

This is good stuff. > http://cigarhistory.info/Cigars/Welcome.html

Cigar Industry of the U.S.,

1762 - 1962

The history of cigars, cigar boxes, cigar labels, cigar making, cigar cutters, cigar premiums, cigar tools, cigar promotions,

and other things cigar in the U.S. + some Canada and Cuba.

An untold story...until now

Updated and corrected April 28, 2013

 

[Tarot]

Very interesting MarcL! Best wishes on your museum. I will check out the history of cigars. My interest is in ritualistic use of tobacco.

 

[Jitterbugdude]

My interest is in ritualistic use of tobacco.

Have you read the "Jamestown Letters"? It is a big book and contains all of the correspondence that the first English settlers sent back to England. There are quite a few references to tobacco use but you have to read through the 400+ pages to find them. Seeing that you are in the Mid Atlantic /Southern states area this might be more "realistic" than how the Indians in the Plains used it.

Edit: The book is actually called "Jamestown Narratives" and it is over 900 pages.

 

[MarcL]

Very interesting MarcL! Best wishes on your museum.

Yes. but that's not me or my museum.

 

[bonehead]

i think of blue crabs and family vacation when i think of chesapeake bay so many years ago. i would be to expensive to buy if i was a whiskey because of the length of time of ageing. now i wan't a real crabcake with more crab than cake. i can almost feel the crab juice dripping off of my elbows at the picnic table in the middle of summer while smashing seasoned boiled or steamed blue crabs.

 

[Jitterbugdude]

I spent many a happy day in the '60's crabbing with my dad near Heart and Miller Islands.