At Musgrave Pencil Company in Shelbyville, Tennessee, politics rarely came up before this year. President Donald Trump’s tariff policies have changed that.

At Musgrave Pencil Company in Shelbyville, Tennessee, politics rarely came up before this year. President Donald Trump’s tariff policies have changed that.

Musgrave Pencil Company reopened on May 4 after Tennessee's stay-at-home order was lifted. During its four-week closure, the company was able to protect many factory employees' wages and benefits ...

Unfinished pencils at the Musgrave plant in Shelbyville, Tennessee—“The Pencil City.” Natosha Via. Wood passes through the loud whine of saws spinning at 8,000 revolutions per minute.

Scott Johnson, president of the Musgrave Pencil Co. in Shelbyville, Tenn., was ready to send back an incoming shipment of Chinese-made slats—the wooden part of a pencil—when news of the tariff ...

One of the few remaining US pencil-makers, Musgrave Pencils of Shelbyville, Tennessee, says they kept the industry from being completely lost. Video journalist: Zoe Thomas. Subsection.

The Musgrave Pencil Company has been making pencils in Shelbyville, Tennessee since 1916, helping the town earn its designation, with a number of other manufacturers, as Pencil City. According to ...