Throngs of people gathered Saturday in a scenic Minneapolis neighborhood for an annual ritual — the sharpening of a gigantic ...

Residents will gather Saturday in a scenic Minneapolis neighborhood for an annual ritual — the sharpening of a gigantic No. 2 pencil.

You see it in school, you see it in people’s work, or drawings, everything ... To keep the point pointy, they haul a giant, custom-made pencil sharpener up the scaffolding that is erected ...