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Thousands of Cheering Spectators Gather to Watch This 20-Foot-Tall No. 2 Pencil Get Sharpened
After a 2017 windstorm toppled the crown of their oak tree in Minneapolis, John and Amy Higgins hired artist Curtis ...
Why a Minneapolis neighborhood sharpens a giant pencil every year
Throngs of people gathered Saturday in a scenic Minneapolis neighborhood for an annual ritual — the sharpening of a gigantic ...
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20-foot-tall pencil on Lake of the Isles lawn will get its annual sharpening
The pencil first appeared in June 2022, some five years after the upper canopy of a 180-year-old oak tree fell onto the Higgins’ front lawn during a storm. Rather than just get rid of the wood ...
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