In May, 1893, two Swedish-born brothers, Otto and Al Anderson, purchased the Diamond Cigar Company of Menomonie. It was a surprising move considering that Otto had been a barber from 1874, beginning ...

RACINE, WI — Back in the day, dock workers, businessmen, factory workers, and tavernkeepers would be seen with a cigar kept in their pockets or lit between their fingers after a long day at work. It ...

Some stuff just ages well—whiskey, denim, friendship, and, of course, cigars. If you’ve ever thought about why cigar aficionados heap boxes in closets for months (or years) at a time, it’s not just to ...

In 1962, José Orlando Padrón, a third-generation Cuban tobacco grower, ended up in Miami after the Castro regime confiscated his family’s farms. It took only two years for him to set up shop making ...