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Why a Minneapolis neighborhood sharpens a giant pencil every year

Posted 6/7/25

Residents will gather Saturday in a scenic Minneapolis neighborhood for an annual ritual — the sharpening of a gigantic No. 2 pencil. The 20-feet-tall pencil was sculpted out of a mammoth oak at …

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