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Article: Snow business; In his Northfield workshop, one of the last snow globe repairmen in the country plies his seasonal trade.(HOME & GARDEN)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- December 3, 2003
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Byline: Karen Youso; Staff Writer
Northfield, Minn. -- Small piles of debris sit in a neat row on the counter. Once-tidy scenes under glass just a shake away from a magical blizzard are now no more than rubble.
In one pile, a miniature pink fairy lay like a fallen soldier in the snow atop a black base; in another, tiny pieces of broken birds and snowmen. Some bases are disemboweled, their musical movements yanked out and set to the side.
Propped behind each mound is a handwritten 3-by-5 card with the snow globe owner's name and location - Oregon, Texas, Connecticut, Illinois, Vermont - and the date it arrived by mail.
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