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.

The actual sharpening is no small feat; it involves erecting a scaffold and using a custom-made sharpener. Each year, the pencil is trimmed by 3 to 10 inches. While its size gradually decreases, the ...

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 ...

To keep the point pointy, they haul a giant, custom-made pencil sharpener up the scaffolding that is 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.

Only 120 cars are allowed in for each of eight nights every year during peak season, Katie Liming, Chief of Staff at Great Smoky Mountains National Park told the Times-News.

The pencil, carved by wood sculptor Curtis Ingvoldstad, is a faithful replica of a classic Trusty brand yellow No. 2 pencil. Every year, the Higginses and their crew of volunteers haul up a giant ...

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 ...

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

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 ...