Emily King

Ahoy Mateys! Avast all ye landlubbers and scallywags! All ye buccaneers and sea dogs! Legend tells of a place along the Connecticut River where paths are cut through a sea of corn. A place where there be buried treasure around every turn, and cider donuts in every hand. “X” marks the spot in Sunderland this … Read more

An 8-acre message – visible from Space – has appeared on the surface of the pale blue dot know as Earth! Stardate:  9.9.2017 – Mike’s Maze Opens for the 2017 Season! Location: Corn Field, 23 South Main Street, Sunderland, Massachusetts, United States of America, Earth, Solar System, Orion Spiral Arm, Milky Way Galaxy, Local Group, Virgo Supercluster, … Read more

Mike’s Maze celebrated 100 years of the National Park Service in 2016 with our “See America” Maze. The National Parks wouldn’t exist today without the tireless efforts of two conservation champions: John Muir and Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States. Our maze design featured the images of Roosevelt and Muir with a unique … Read more

In 2014 we challenged maze-goers to use their wit and creativity to gain entrance into Animal University. The maze took the shape of a raven, the bird known for being clever and intelligent, and visitors tuned into the natural world to solve a series of puzzles. If they succeeded in finding a solution that suited … Read more

Illusion was the theme of the 2013 Maze, which displayed an image of Spanish surrealist painter, Salvador Dali, famous for creating unique artwork featuring distorted images that perplex the mind. The maze featured disorienting areas of open space amongst the corn stalks, where maze-goers could easily get lost during their exploration. Game stations were hidden … Read more

In 2012, our 8-acre rendering in corn and dirt was of Jean François Millet’s ‘The Sower‘ besieged by, counterclockwise from top right, a murder of crows, the winds of Aeolius, a giant locust, a brazen woodchuck, and a thieving raccoon. Hence we titled the maze The Sower’s Banquet. Ah, the joys of agriculture! Not familiar … Read more

In past mazes the trails would outline the subject’s features, but in 2010 the bust of Noah Webster, our subject, is rendered in corn as a stupendous halftone image using the corn stalks like 10-foot tall dots of green ink on a sepia toned field of Hadley loam. Noah Webster authored the first dictionary of … Read more

For our 10th anniversary, the cornfield became a canvas and the farm became a gallery where we celebrated infamous Pop Art hero Andy Warhol with a corny rendition of his Campbell’s Soup Can. Maze-goers became artists and critics as they sought out printing presses hidden throughout the maze and created full color masterpieces of famous … Read more

The brilliant bearded British biologist who boarded the brig named the Beagle was a natural selection for a corn maze. We celebrated his 200th birthday, his astounding whiskers and our shared Darwinian characteristic of carrying our brains around in cases called skulls. Our maze-goers never faced a more challenging game, yet Mike barely grew enough … Read more