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[RBH]

Thomas Wolfe feeding a chipmunk.
Crater Lake National Park, Oregon
June 20, 1938
(Thomas Wolfe Collection, Pack Memorial Public Library, Asheville, NC.)

I have worked on my family genealogy for a great number of years.
That said Ancestry.coms app, WERE RELATED, has put Thomas Wolfe and myself as 7th cousins 4x removed.
Kinda cool I think.

 

[hatsRme]

Thomas Wolfe feeding a chipmunk.
Crater Lake National Park, Oregon
June 20, 1938
(Thomas Wolfe Collection, Pack Memorial Public Library, Asheville, NC.)

I have worked on my family genealogy for a great number of years.
That said Ancestry.coms app, WERE RELATED, has put Thomas Wolfe and myself as 7th cousins 4x removed.
Kinda cool I think.

VERY cool how that all works these days, isn't it Rusty?! I almost see the family resemblance, but you wear better hats.

 

[Michael R.]

1890s-1900

 

[Hurricane Jack]

How times have changed.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

An old veteran

 

[scottyrocks]

How times have changed.

When I was 16 my Dad let me smoke one of his pipes. I packed it myself, and did the best I could to smoke it. When it wouldn't stay lit anymore, he told me I hadn't packed correctly and packed another bowl for me. I smoked that one, and then proceeded to puke my guts up. I think he did it deliberately to quell my desire to continue the practice.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

...and then proceeded to puke my guts up.

LOL! The same thing happened to me when I was 13 & tried some Red Man Original Loose Leaf Chewing Tobacco, in the green foil pouch. I wasn't expecting uncut "full leaves". This was long before they start you out on scrap tobacco with some flavoring in a small bag like Skoal Bandits.

 

[KarlCrow]

When I was 16 my Dad let me smoke one of his pipes. I packed it myself, and did the best I could to smoke it. When it wouldn't stay lit anymore, he told me I hadn't packed correctly and packed another bowl for me. I smoked that one, and then proceeded to puke my guts up. I think he did it deliberately to quell my desire to continue the practice.

my dad caught myself and older brother smoking when i was about 8, he locked us in a cloakroom with two packs and told us to come out when we were finished, he opened the door an hour later and I was blowing smoke rings, we'd been smoking for a few months undeknownst to him. That said, i wasn't allowed smoke in front of him for anothet decade.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Reminds me of Andy Devine

Not much of a view of the hat but love the stache

 

[Rogera]

Really like the hat...the shoulder rig, not so much.

Yeah he looks like he's about to lose it

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Sharp dressed man.

 

[moontheloon]

LOL! The same thing happened to me when I was 13 & tried some Red Man Original Loose Leaf Chewing Tobacco, in the green foil pouch. I wasn't expecting uncut "full leaves". This was long before they start you out on scrap tobacco with some flavoring in a small bag like Skoal Bandits.

I had a similar experience when I was about 9 .... the story is a bit of legend in my family
We had/have a house up in the Catskills and when we were up there it was sort of anything goes .... I was driving my dads truck at 9 or 10 ... drinking beer .... shooting guns... smoking cigars etc.
well on one of the tractor rides up the mountain to chop wood I decided I was going to fill my cheek with a wad of Beechnut like I had seen my brother and all the older guys do.
I did so and was also sneaking sips of my old mans Bud nips... I guess I swallowed quite a bit of the tobacco "juice" and legend has it I turned green ... my mom was convinced I had the flu upon our return from chopping wood.
That was well over 30 years ago and I hate the stuff the this day

 

[Hurricane Jack]

^^^It's always the juice that gets ya!

When I was abt 13-14 yrs old a friend of mine's grandfather owned what had been a mansion with an old carriage house in back. We used that carriage house as sort of a club house. It was only being used for storeage & rarely did anyone go in there but us.

One night a bunch of us were there & somehow we all got into a bet that we could swallow a raw egg. A couple of guys tried without success, then it came my turn. I knew I had to get it down fast & if the yoke broke I would be in trouble. So I cracked the egg into a shot glass & slammed it back like I was drinking bad whiskey or something. I got the egg down without it breaking but about 3-4 min later it came right back up & didn't break until it hit the floor!

 

[Hurricane Jack]

He should have gone to Tractor Supply & bought the hat with the green visor in the brim. And he's not wearing Big Smith's either!

 

[Denton]

Henry Adams, 1883. I thought at first that he might be wearing a straw hat but I guess he would not have worn straw in a cold season (no leaves on the vines, heavy wool suit).

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Deep pinch

Soft pinch

 

[Hurricane Jack]

(Harv's) Old Mechanics Garage

 

[BobHufford]

 

[BobHufford]

 

[BobHufford]