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September 27, 2005
Thoreau And The Pencil Factory
Was there a time when there weren't even typewriters?
Even more resourceful was his insistence on keeping the family pencil factory going while he struggled for sustinence in the woods. Why pencils? Well, he was a writer, and this was the middle of the 19th century, before typewriters came on the scene. In those days pencils were big business, and siting one close to sources of timber and charcoal was a surefire guarantee of success.
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Posted on September 27, 2005 10:41 AM by Office61.
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