“Do you know what the worst sound in the world is? It’s the sound of bagpipes. It is absolutely horrible, frightful and sounds like ten thousand hogs grunting at the same time.”
Those words were spoken to me by H. Allen Snith, a famous humorist and literary giant who wrote 50 books, each one funnier than the previous one. He moved to Alpine from New York in the mid-sixties. He had thoughts of retir…