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A pipe dream in the North Carolina mountains

Dr. Grabow, a Chicago-area dentist, gave his name to a pipe-making firm back in the 1920s. Almost a century later, the firm produces more than 100,000 pipes a year at its plant in Sparta, N.C.
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Dr. Grabow, a Chicago-area dentist, gave his name to a pipe-making firm back in the 1920s. Almost a century later, the firm produces more than 100,000 pipes a year at its plant in Sparta, N.C.

Reporter : Scott Mason
Photographer : Robert Meikle
Web Editor : Matthew Burns
Posted 2019-09-30T18:54:48-0400 - Updated 2019-09-30T18:54:48-0400