Mike's Corn Maze Darwin A Natural Selection

This Year's Maze

Mikes Maze 2009 celebrates the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, and the 150th anniversary of his revolutionary and still controversial scientific volume, On the Origin of Species. But what really makes Darwin a great subject for a corn maze isn't his contentious and polemic scientific dissertations, it's his LONG SCRUFFY BEARD! His tangle of whiskers is the perfect pretext for a bewildering array of maze trails.

Our maze game is inspired by Darwin's famous quote "I love fools' experiments. I am always making them." Mazegoers will be challenged to identify and classify all living vertebrates and more. Because that's too easy they will also make their own close observations from images of biological curiosities found in the natural history collections of Amherst College and Greenfield Community College. And wait! There's more. They will need to naturally select the right trails in and out of Chuck's curly chin cilia. We expect no complaints this year that the maze and the game are too easy!

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Thank you pilot Mark Grella, flying out of the Northampton Airport, for the smooth ride.

And what about those birds? No, Darwin's love of animals didn't include housing them on his grizzled cheeks. The maze birds are just a few of the finches unique to the Galapagos Islands that Darwin observed on his trip around the world and that were instrumental in the revelations that led to his revolutionary ideas.

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