CARVING TALL TALES.(Business)(Couple makes unique totem poles telling personal, whimsical stories)

The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) | February 10, 2006 | Copyright

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.' '

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