The Pipe Collection

James Corriell

Pipes

The Collection

Here is yet another collection from 1109 Pine.  This one belongs to James Corriell, who lived at 1109 Pine from 1982 until his death in 1995.  He was the father of James Bonn, from whom we bought the house.  Mr. Corriell came into the picture when he married Liz Kirby, the only daughter of Bessie Kirby and Leonard Kirby and the granddaughter of Mary Elizabeth and W.F. Hammond, the family who bought 1109 Pine in 1919.  When James and Liz married in 1982, he was in his 70s and Liz was in her 60s.  It was the third marriage for James and the first for Liz.  He worked at Boulder's paper, the Daily Camera, for 40 years and was an accomplished editorial page journalist and an avid amateur photographer.  He was a veteran of WWII and an Eagle Scout.  Among his other passions were airplanes, women and alcohol.  And, of course, smoking pipes.  My guess is that he liked his pipes most of all.