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Hometown Teams Corn Maze

10/21/2014

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Today the Howell Farm “Hometown Teams Corn Maze” had some special visitors—members of the various organizations that helped make the Smithsonian’s Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America traveling museum exhibit a big success. In 2014, the exhibit visited six New Jersey locations, including the Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center, the Atlantic City Historical Museum, Howell Living History Farm, Bridgeton Public Library, Hudson County Community College, and the Morris Museum. The exhibit was brought to New Jersey by the New Jersey Council for the Humanities and the Smithsonian Institution.

At the start of the maze tour, Howell Farm director Pete Watson explained that Howell Farm’s maze was one of the first corn mazes in the country, and is now in its 18th year. Maze challengers have two main objectives: “To get out” and “To answer questions.” This year, to fit the maze theme, those questions are related to New Jersey sports history.

Farmer Pete also explained that coming up with tough maze trivia questions has become more of a challenge in the modern age of smart phones. The maze designers are now instructed to make sure no answers to maze questions can be found in the first three pages of a Google search.

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    The Furrow is the online newsletter of The Friends of Howell Living History Farm. We will be updating this site about once a week with crop reports and other insights into life on a horse-drawn living history farm.

    Howell Farm is owned by Mercer County and operated by the Mercer County Park Commission.

    Funding for the Howell Living History Farm Furrow is made possible in part by an operating grant from the New Jersey Historical Commission, a division of the Department of State. 

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