Sometimes affection sprouts up in unexpected forms. Sometimes a core of graphite mixed with clay and encased in a tube of wood can surprise you. It hooked me, anyway. From Pencils You Should Know: A ...

A class of fifth-graders from Green Acres Elementary in Lebanon, Ore., asked us to find out how pencil lead is made. That quest took us all the way back to the dawn of the universe and then all the ...

“Jimmie” Howard was 8 years old when he began sharing his love of pencils with the world outside Scranton. He was a collector with a cabinet to fill. His dad, James, built it to hold 4,000 pencils, ...

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