Cigars and cigar boxes
COMMENTARY
Who remembers when the courthouse smelled like cigars? Does it still, faintly?
Which courthouse? All of them. But I’m thinking about my courthouse with its stalwart gray granite interior. I think those walls are still exhaling a little cigar smoke.
During my early childhood years, Farm Bureau meetings were at courthouse. Cigar smoke did not cloud those nighttime gatherings. Farmers mostly …