Quote Originally Posted by Herf N Turf View Post
Crazy as it is, this is a really fascinating thread. I love long pipes with small bowls, but admit that I haven't a clue as to the origins of their specifics. What I do know is, they smoke very cool for a small-bowled pipe, which gives the smoker the pleasure of a full-flavored bowl, without the hours-long commitment of a big bowl.
This is why I like the Dr Grabow pipes, smaller bowls but not tiny.Even then often I only load around half so I have time to enjoy it. I know a few here will set down a half smoked pipe and finish it later, But I have cats who are way to inquisitive, and smoking cat hair bites.

I've not tried smoking a churchwarden, but they are strangly alluring.Thinking about ordering an extra long foreverstem to put on one of my bowls.

Looking on the net, There are several differing spicifics and they are confusing. One states that the longer stems developed over a short time due to fashion.Another,
Lane introduced the style to Sir Francis Drake which leads me to believe it is derivitive from the "Peace Pipes". I haven't found the one about reading, but an old friend , who has studied symbology longer than I've been alive, informed me years ago the longer stem was so the parrishner could extend his bowl to the Warden/Deacon for light without having to leave his seat.One history stated that the Angelican church had bans on smoking and that one of the early kings of England burned tobacco crops being
grown in England.