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Article: Smokey Bear Caught On Like Wildfire; Icon's Popularity Kept Artist Busy During His Decades at the U.S. Forest Service
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- December 1, 1995
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The guardian of Smokey Bear leans a little closer to hear the
question, his Smokey Bear string tie just a bit off center.
Sitting in his modest North Arlington home, with a life-size
stuffed Smokey staring in from the sun porch, 85-year-old artist
Rudolph Wendelin explains that his hearing isn't what it once was and
that his eyes are going, too. But the fire still glows in them when
he speaks of Smokey.
"I was just proud of doing all this. That's why I saved so much,"
said Wendelin, who for decades labored over Smokey in the
bureaucratic anonymity of the U.S. Forest Service. Over the years, he
collected a prodigious amount of artwork and memorabilia, which he
wants to see preserved.
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