LIDGERWOOD, N.D. — Lidgerwood is proud of a lot of things. It is home to kolaches and a strong Czech heritage.

And one more thing — it's also Pencil Town USA.

Just ask Ken Clark.

"Bullet pencils they call them. They pull apart and there is a short pencil in there," Clark says as he points to some of the smaller pencils.

Clark is the custodian of a 43,000 pencil collection. It started more than a century ago, when Roy Kohl started keeping pencils, which were a hot commodity during the depression of the 1930s.

But the call has been put out: let's find a home for those pencils.

"City Meat Market," Clark says as he reads some of the business names on the pencils.

Those 43,000 pencils lined not only the walls of Kohl's home, but the ceilings, too. So when Clark bought the house in 1992,

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