THE INFORMATION BELOW IS STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION!!!
Please be patient as I find the time to update it and add photo examples.
I'm not the first person in my family to have an interest in pipes. Here's some photos of some of my family and their pipes:
My Great Grandfather, Charles Fletcher, and his pipe circa the 1920s.
My Grandfather, Wilford Fletcher, and one of his pipes circa 1941.
My Grandfather, Wilford Fletcher, and a full bent pipe circa the 1940s.
My Grandfather, Wilford Fletcher, and a full bent pipe again circa 1944 or so.
My "Grandftaher-in-Law", "Dude" Ground enjoying his pipe.
My Dad, Gordon McKay, in front of several Yello Bole pipe displays inside Webb City Drug Store circa 1940.
Yours truly, Russell James McKay with a Dr. Grabow, (Churchwarden shape #00A, made circa early- to mid-1940s.)