We are officially in October!
That means we welcome in the fall holidays and all their traditions. As we’ve considered these traditions, going through a corn maze strikes us as one of the more fun and interesting.
As people, we’ve been fascinated with mazes for thousands of years. They have come in many shapes and sizes. The oldest surviving hedge maze (an ancestor to the corn maze 😄) is the Hampton Court Maze in London, which was started in 1690. After that, it’s not a great leap to using other tall plants to build mazes. So, when Don Frantz and Adrian Fisher designed and built the first corn maze in the US in 1993, it wasn’t that big of a leap. Their little maze covered just 3 acres.
The Guinness World Record for the most giant corn maze is 60 acres!
Why do we do these mazes?
There are all kinds of possible explanations, but we like this one, given by Katie Colony, a co-owner of a corn maze: “I think it comes down to tradition and having some of those special times with family year after year.”
One of the reasons we love this time of year is that it comes with traditions. These traditions bring families together and bring smiles to kids’ faces. And, like mazes, some of these traditions have been happening for a very long time. That’s a great thing!
We would love to hear some of your favorite fall traditions. Please share them in the comments. Who knows, maybe it will become someone else’s new tradition.
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