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PENCILMANIA

Pencilmania is an annual event unique to our library. Volunteers collaborate to copy a literary classic word-for-word in pencil.  Part of One Book Blair County.

2007
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2009

 


2007
26 volunteers collaborated to copy all 100,388 words of To Kill a Mockingbird with one pencil

Project blog

NPR story about the event


The 2007 pencil after copying To Kill a Mockingbird

2008
47 volunteers collaborated to copy every word in Farenheit 451

 WPSU radio story about the event


Telephone pole turned into giant pencil

2009
64 volunteers collaborated to copy every word in
The Maltese Falcon


A saintly patron loaned us his Falcon figurine


The debut of the snack pencil


It all happened in the shadow of this monstrosity

 
 
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