Raleigh, NC Pipe Show

Londy3

Has anyone heard if NC is holding the pipe show this year. The website TAPS is dead. 

AceFour

I heard grumblings next year.

Londy3

Why next year?

AceFour

They didn't have time to get their act together.  They usually do it in spring.

vtgrad2003

Isn't Raleigh in California? LOL. There are five cities in NC that belong there, Raleigh, Charlotte, Boone, Greensboro and Asheville!

Londy3

@vtgrad2003
How could you forget the most liberal of all, chapel hill and carrboro. I lived there I know. 

vtgrad2003

@Londy3

I know what you mean, I lived in both as well when I was going to UNC, like Jesse Helms once said when there was a debate about building the NC Zoo in Asheboro and the cost that would be involved "why do we need to build a new zoo when it's a lot cheaper to simply put a fence around Chapel Hill" LOL.

If it wasn't for Chapel Hill, we wouldn't know what liberalism is! LOL

That said, when I was writing for the Daily Tar Heel there (the campus newspaper), there's actually a "silent majority" of conservative students there, believe it or not, so I would hate to disenfranchise them. UNC policy has always been to 'keep a university education as low as practicable', so there are a ton of students there that grew up on NC farms, in parents small businesses, etc, and are conservative, they just don't say anything about it.

Londy3

@vtgrad2003
Silent majority has very little power.  We've seen what being silent has done on a grand scale. 

Whoispra

Any word on a Raleigh show ever coming back? It seems TAPS is defunct.

PappyJoe

@Whoispra
Rumors has it that the show is defunct also.

On the other hand, the New Orleans Pipe Show is being revived and we hope to have the show next spring.

Whoispra

@PappyJoe It wouldn't surprise me that this is also defunct. However, I heard that NOLA Pipe Show was coming back and that is super exciting. I haven't ever been to a pipe show. I am working with a fellow TPL member to try and revive some kind of pipe group here in our area.

Londy3

Yeah, TAPS is dead. I was corresponding to the guy running it and he just can't do it anymore. No body else stepped up either so that's that. 

Londy3

Looks like me, @AceFour and @Whoispra may be starting a tiny pipe club.  Had a great time at our first meeting at Revival in Clayton, NC.

opipeman

@Londy3, @Whoispra, @AceFour;
I'm happy for you Brothers. I'm too far away to ever attend, besides that bar doesn't seem to have enough spirits for all four of us. do the best you can.

RockyMountainBriar

Dang, that looks like a cool place to hang out.

Londy3

@RockyMountainBriar
Dude its an amazing place!!  They have live music too.  I just added one more picture to show

RockyMountainBriar

@Londy3
Hopefully it’s Blues and not Jazz🙂

AceFour

It was a great time indeed.