The indigenous inhabitants of the islands of Mexico and the Americas smoked cigars as early as 1100 A.D. This is evidenced by the discovery of a ceramic vessel at a Mayan archaeological site located at Uaxactun, Guatemala. A painted figure of a man smoking a rudimentary form of cigar adorns the vessel. It was the [...]
Does Santa Smoke a Cigar or a Pipe?
There is a debate raging among cigar and pipe aficionados as to whether Santa smokes a cigar or a pipe. That’s right–the world is being held in suspense over what the Man in Red prefers to smoke with. The debate has the country divided and the opposing parties are at odds grappling over the issue [...]
Cigars in Brazil: An Uncertain Future?
Those who know their cigars well also, by that same token, know Brazil-albeit as a source of great tobacco rather than as a top cigar-producing nation. Brazilian tobacco, mainly produced in the country’s temperate northeastern and southern regions, turns up in such world-class cigars as Carlos Torano’s Toro, but the country’s cigar producers themselves haven’t [...]
Chinese Mushrooms Town – Pan’an County, Zhejiang Province
Pan is a nine and a half hours Tian Shan and a half of pure water, mountain counties, is the hometown of Chinese mushrooms and the national advanced county mushroom industry. In recent years, Pan rapid development of production of edible and medicinal fungi, the existing mushroom, mushroom, black fungus, Flammulina velutipes, Pleurotus, monkey-head mushroom, [...]
Are Boom Times Ahead For Your Business? South Shore Ad Club features “Baby Boomers – From Myth to Magic” on Wednesday, January 27 at Granite Links Co
QUINCY, MASS. “Baby Boomers are all alike!” Most advertising and marketing professionals are savvy enough to know that statement is just not true. The South Shore Ad Club expands upon that topic with a special presentation entitled “Baby Boomers – From Myth to Magic” on Wednesday, January 27, 6 p.m. at Granite Links Country Club, Quincy. Tom [...]
Greatest satisfactions in life is selling a timeshare…
Where’s the Value of Timeshare Is?As he walked into our little land office in Placerville, California (about sixty miles west of South Lake Tahoe), he said, “I’ve got the keys to the bank” and proceeded to tell me about this new concept called timesharing. I responded with “Forget it, Jack. It won’t work.” Jack was [...]