For the last 20-years, she’s been the caretaker of the World’s Biggest Ball of Sisal Twine – busy giving tours, filling requests for pictures and taking phone calls from travel professionals and even some celebrities.
She’s Cawker City’s Linda Clover and she was recently informed that she has been selected as a member of the 2012-class of the “50 Kansans You Should Know” by the Kansas City-based Business Magazine – Ingram’s.
Clover works hard to keep the spotlight on the unique local attraction, that by all measurements is famous because of its measurements… 9-tons of Sisal Twine that if unraveled would stretch nearly 1,500-miles.
Travelers on U.S. Highway 24 just can’t seem to resist posing for a picture with the big ball of twine. Clover says they’re just fascinated by it!
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Clover says the reason lots of folks know where Cawker City is – the big ball of twine, which has carved out a unique place in Americana – - often inspiring a laugh or two.
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Sometime later this spring, the keeper of the big ball of twine will be honored for her work in a ceremony in Topeka.
At the ceremony her work with the local attraction will stand side-by-side with the accomplishments of the other 49-Ingram’s choices – people like Kansas Senator Jerry Moran, Great Plains Manufacturing CEO Roy Applequist, Kansas University Men’s Basketball Coach Bill Self, and Nationally known Photo=Journalist Larry Hatteburg, just to name a few.
The modest little lady from Cawker City says she’s not sure why they picked her!
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Those who know Linda Clover, know that her work with the big ball of twine casts a shadow far beyond her 5-foot frame – a shadow that stretches all across the country.
If you would like to check out the 2nd Annual Ingram’s “50 Kansans you should know” on-line, you can go to www.ingramsonline.com.
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