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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: Linda Christensen, The Minnesota State Fair’s Legendary Butter Sculptor
Description: At the Minnesota State Fair, there's a contest to choose a new ambassador for the state's dairy farms. And for almost 50 years, a sculptor made butter likenesses of the contestants. Here's a little about how Linda Christensen and her colleagues did it. Plus: the Instagram account push.pushbuttons showcases some of the coolest and most pushable buttons in the world around us.Â
For nearly 50 years, she’s sculpted women’s faces at the state fair — out of butter. Now she’s retiring her knife. (Washington Post)
push.pushbuttons (Instagram via Messy Nessy)
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