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Article: CARVING TALL TALES.(Business)(Couple makes unique totem poles telling personal, whimsical stories)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- February 10, 2006
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Byline: Winston Ross The Register-Guard
FLORENCE - People ask Steve and Margaret Benson all the time: How'd you get into totem pole making?
The Bensons say it's simple: They started making totem poles 23 years ago because people asked them to do it. They haven't stopped making totem poles because people haven't stopped asking.
"It's a mystery to me," Margaret says, `how many people write us, call us (or show up at the front door, unannounced) and say `I've always wanted a totem pole; my mother always wanted a totem pole.' '
The ex-mayor of Boulder, Colo., wanted an elephant. He's a Republican, you see. Another lady wanted two heads on ...