Perhaps you too love it when a story ripples on, when the splash of its initial landing brings on a little backwash from or crossings with other stories and their wavelets. Just so with our recently posted piece from Richard Higgins about NYC’s attempted heist of Concord’s and the Thoreau family’s pencil past. Here, in short, is a photo Higgins discovered and its caption, which offers ID. At the end we have a tag-verse. Perhaps there are still more pencil-places to be heard from.
An old mill in Rex Village, N.C., turned into the fictional Stanleyville, “Pencil Capital of the World,” in the Disney film, “The Odd Life of Timothy Green.” (Readers: please do not forward to The New York Times.)
“Playing footsie with pencil
history is something with which
the people of Concord will not
put.”
Richard Higgins – after Winston Churchill