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Farms across the country carve Dolly Parton corn mazes

Twenty farms in fifteen states and two Canadian provinces are cutting Dolly Parton mazes, and donating part of the proceeds to Imagination Library programs; bring snacks.

Photo: David Gahr · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
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Photo: Dolly Parton
Photo: David Gahr · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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  1. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorNearly two dozen farms across the country are cutting Dolly Parton into their cornfields this fall, and ABC News walked through one in New Jersey.

  2. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe count is twenty farms, in fifteen states and two Canadian provinces, all designed by a company in Utah called The MAiZE Inc.

  3. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorBBN team coverage is on it, with our live corn map, our maze desk, and a panel of three people who have never once been lost.

  4. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorWe have a map of corn.

  5. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorA farm in Connecticut cut the whole thing in the shape of her head, and a farm in Manhattan, Kansas, opened its maze on September twenty-fifth as a nod to the song Nine to Five.

  6. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA nod to a song about getting to work on time. In a maze built so that you can't.

  7. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorI'd call that a creative reinterpretation of the workday.

  8. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorAlso, the farms are donating a portion of their proceeds to local Imagination Library programs, which gets kids books.

  9. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThat part is good, and I'll say so. You walk in confused and the money goes to reading.

  10. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorTwenty farms, fifteen states, two provinces, and the only person home by five read the sign. Everyone else is still in Dolly's head.

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