As It Happens 6:11 Every year, folks travel from far and wide watch this giant pencil get sharpened John Higgins likes to think of the six-metre-tall pencil on his front lawn as a piece of pop art.

To keep the point pointy, they haul a giant, custom-made pencil sharpener up the scaffolding that's erected for the event. Like a real pencil, this one is ephemeral. Every year they sharpen it, it ...

Like a real pencil, this one is ephemeral. Every year they sharpen it, it gets a bit shorter. They have taken anywhere from 3 to 10 inches (8 to 25 centimeters) off a year.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — More than 1,000 people gathered Saturday in a scenic Minneapolis neighborhood for an annual ritual — the sharpening of a gigantic No. 2 pencil. The 20-foot-tall (6-meter ...

Throngs of people gathered 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 ...

MINNEAPOLIS – More than 1,000 people gathered Saturday in a scenic Minneapolis neighborhood for an annual ritual — the sharpening of a gigantic No. 2 pencil. The 20-foot-tall (6-meter-tall ...

Throngs of people gathered Saturday in a scenic Minneapolis neighborhood for an annual ritual — the sharpening of a gigantic No. 2 pencil.