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McPhersons Cultivate A-Maize-Ing Entertainment
JOYCE BUPP
York Co. Correspondent
NEW PARK (York Co.)
Don't cut through the com.
Don't pull off any eats. No run
ning. No cigarettes!
Got those rules? Then
you're ready to take on the
challenge of Maize Quest.
After an introductory initia
tion to the fine art of safely ne
gotiating their way through a
com Held, including a pointed
warning about how cigarettes
can start flies in a dry field,
several thousand people did
just that last fall at the McPher
son family's Maple Lawn
Farms. New Park. The south
ern York County com maze
was one of several such con
sumer-entertainment out
reaches that have been culti
vated around the region in the
f last few years.
Com rustled as a brisk, fall
tIM John a Non form north of Now Holland.
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PENNSYLVANIA MASTER CORN GROWERS ASSOC., INC.
Corn Talk, Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 24, 1998
breeze stirred through the dry
ing stand of upside-down ears
and drooping, brown stalks.
A cricket dashed across a
packed path, seeking a haven
from a pounding by passing
sneakers.
And a gleeful cluster of chat
tering church-group members
gathered to add yet another
section to their map of the intri
cate com maze. If they could
complete the map, it would
show them the way out
Maize Quest was truly a
family endeavor of the Paul
and Gail McPherson clan,
longtime advocates of educat
ing the consuming public about
where food originates. From
their U-pick orchard to period
ic newsletters sent to a wide
mailing list of customers, the
McPherson’s Maple Lawn fruit
and grain operation has always
been on the leading edge of
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Com Talk, Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 11,1997
agriculture-education activism.
Sharing in the major plan
ning and implementation of
Maize Quest, with its heavy
emphasis on information along
with entertainment were sib
lings Hugh and Gretchen Mc-
Pherson. Hugh, a recent Perm
State graduate with an ag busi
ness degree, combined his
interest in undertaking a new
farm venture with the ait de
gree of his sister, Gretchen,
who bves in California
Their brainstorming birthed
the Maize Quest idea months
before the first com seed went
into the soil. Hugh had beard
about other mazes in the area
and taw it as an extension and
alternative use of the farm’s
normal planting of a large acre
age of grain com. They envi
sioned a com maze that would
not only entertain visitors, but
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