When Irving Carlisle left his Pennsylvania home and headed south towards Otterwood, North Carolina, all he wanted was more "Suttlespyce (Number 17)"-the richest, rarest, most wonderful and elusive pipe tobacco in the world. It was going to be a long, strange, horrible time before he ever got back

Michael B. Pinkey was born in Albuquerque to an Army family, and so spent his formative years continually moving around. He recalls being told not to eat the ice cream in Germany. He now resides in a little blue house near the Arkansas River and never answers his telephone.