It sat in storage for 10 years, beaten down by weather and vandalism, but now the statue of Peanuts fan favorite Snoopy and Woodstock has been returned to its original form.

After years of waiting, the piece originally constructed by artist Kim Cope has been restored and is now on display inside a Half Price Books in Maplewood.

Joel Dirnberger was called on to put the pieces back together.

"The Woodstock has been stolen, the typewriter had been stolen, and it was a dark and stormy night the manuscript all had gone missing," Dirnberger said.

Dirnberger documented the many hours he spent working on the statue.

"Two of the corners had been damaged. They had been hit by a car and broken off so I had to recreate the corners and I had to recreate the Woodstock from scratch, and the typewrit

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