To Write a Mockingbird

How volunteers came together to copy the acclaimed novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" word-for-word with ONE PENCIL. It began May 4, 2007 at the Hollidaysburg Area Public Library and concluded on June 6.

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Wednesday, April 18, 2007

A plea to the Dixon-Ticonderoga company

Help us choose!

Should we go with your Original model?

Executive model?

Black?

Woodgrain?

Environmentally-friendly?

Triangular?

Help!

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The average pencil holds enough graphite to draw a line about 35 miles long or to write roughly 45,000 words. History does not record anyone testing this statistic.

"20 Things You Didn't Know
About the Pencil"
DISCOVER magazine
May 2007, page 80

Click here to read the article

WHEN
We started May 4, 2007, at 2:00 pm and finished on June 6, 2007, at 9:00 pm

WHERE
Hollidaysburg Area Public Library
405 Clark Street
Hollidaysburg, PA 16648
814-695-5961

HOW

WHO
Organizers Kenneth Sheppard (left below) and Keith Eldred gathered a group of twenty-six copyists to honor the noble themes of To Kill a Mockingbird.

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