Here comes the parade!

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Finally available for pre-order is The Complete History of Peanuts on Parade: A Tribute to Charles M. Schulz: Volume One: The St. Paul Years. This is, in addition to being a book with three colons in its title, a photo-heavy history of the projects where various artists customized Peanuts statues and flooded the town with them. The planned second volume will cover the years that followed these were Santa Rosa hosted the event. You can listen to me interview William about this years-in-the-making book series here.

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