Lou Ureneck

“In 1900, before the widespread introduction of Turkish tobacco, Americans consumed two and a half million cigarettes each year. In 1920, when nearly 85 percent of American cigarettes were blended with Turkish tobacco, the consumption grew to more than fifty billion cigarettes per year. The luxury brand was American Tobacco Co.’s Pall Mall—made from 100 percent Turkish tobacco.”
― Lou Ureneck, The Great Fire

“Solo work has always appealed to me. My favorite activities have been solo pursuits: fishing, walking, reading, and writing. Each of these activities has offered me antiphonal moments of effort and ease, concentration and relaxation. They also accommodated my tendency to daydream, and occasionally I caught myself taking a long mental walk around some idea that had occurred to me while I was working. The experience was entirely pleasurable, if not always productive. Antisocial? Maybe a little. Misanthropic? Not at all. I brought a better self to my encounters with others after a period of sustained solo work.”
― Lou Ureneck, Cabin: Two Brothers, a Dream, and Five Acres in Maine