It’s just such a nice little object. It’s reassuringly weighty while still light enough to carry everyday. It has one job: it ...

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While the 1950s saw more than 20 pencil manufacturing plants, several like Dixon Ticonderoga, which closed its Jersey City, New Jersey, plant in 1999, no longer have plants in the United States ...

The pencil saga dates back to May 2017, when the Higgins’ bur oak was “decapitated” in a storm, writes Madison Bloomquist for Mpls.St.Paul magazine.The wind caused the top of the tree to ...

More than 1,000 people gathered Saturday in a scenic Minneapolis neighborhood for an annual ritual — the sharpening of a gigantic No. 2 pencil.

When it’s on John and Amy Higgins’ lawn across from Lake of the Isles, is 20 feet tall and gets an annual public sharpening that draws crowds of more than 1,000 people. The giant pencil, known ...

When is a pencil not just a pencil? When it’s on John and Amy Higgins’ lawn across from Lake of the Isles, is 20 feet tall and gets an annual public sharpening.

A&E; 20-foot-tall pencil gets its annual sharpening June 4, 2025 Updated Wed., June 4, 2025 at 6:14 p.m. Hundreds of people gathered in June 2024 to watch the third annual sharpening of the LOTI ...

When it comes to the best electric pencil sharpener, ... With its upgraded motor, it can sharpen over 10000 times in only 3-5 seconds, providing a sharp and beautiful pencil point each time.

Once coupled to a pencil sharpener that clearly isn’t engineered to work at a bazillion RPM and jury-rigging a damper for the clutch, [Mike] fires up the engine and races through a pack of 10 ...

More than you’d expect, says Kim Won-rae, warranty service provider of Hi Shapa sharpeners ICHEON, Gyeonggi Province — How much can a pencil sharpener mean to its owner? In Kim Won-rae’s ...