Jay and Louise Jones, avid smokers, collectors, and founders of Hermit Tobacco Works, along with "a simple pipe originally owned by Captain Earle," are responsible for creating some exceptional pipe tobacco. Although Jay passed in 2011, Louise continues the tradition of Hermit Tobacco Works and, along with the master blenders at Cornell & Diehl, still produces the Captain Earle's line, named for the Master of the Charles W. Morgan, the last wooden whaling ship currently docked in Mystic, CT.