John is very fond of pencils, saying "The No. 2 is a classic. As students we took the math tests, we had to fill in the ovals, we wrote letters – maybe a love letter, a poem but the color of a ...

A school in Maharashtra's Wai town has given an artistic makeover to a dead ''silver oak'' tree by transforming its stump into the shape of a pencil instead of uprooting it.

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-tall) ...

The idea to create the massive wood sculpture was hatched after a powerful windstorm blew the top off of an oak tree that had stood for over 100 years, the Higgins' told KARE 11 back in 2022.