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Article: Minnesota man one of the last snow globe repairmen
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- January 11, 2004
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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.
Hovering over them is the scriber of the cards, Dick Heibel, a
small, thin man with a neat mustache and graying hair. ...