![]() ![]() Take a wagon ride to enjoy the u-pick pumpkins from their 10 acre field. This is 23 miles southeast of Allentown.Ī third generation working farm in Lancaster County. The address is 1333 Elephant Road, Perkasie, PA 18944. 75 acres) and a thirty minute tractor drawn wagon hayride through their 100 acre Bucks county farm. There are also two small corn mazes (two acres and. All Rights Reserved.Thousands of pumpkins in over a dozen varieties available to pick in all different shapes, sizes, weights and colors. Miller at ©2022 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. "I want 50-year-old dads to stop hitting their kids's shoulders and saying 'Hey look, that's a-maz-ing'," he says. ![]() Wos continues, although he has one peeve. "I prefer electronic devices." How much would he charge to do it? "Twenty dollars," says the 10-year-old. "I said no because I thought it was too hard," says Wiley Wos. Kids "have a much easier time solving mazes because they don't project lines that aren't there," says Mr. Wos's maze is an intriguing thought, he says he couldn't sit long enough on the ground to complete it. The largest was 1 foot by 2 feet for a book fair in San Francisco. Richard Brightfield, an 85-year-old writer and artist who once ghostwrote installations of the Hardy Boys and Encyclopedia Brown series, has designed over 2,000 mazes. "When you're designing a maze which had to go into the grounds of a castle with a moat, like I do, every inch counts, and you can't just freestyle." "What he's doing is freehand, just following his imagination," says Mr. Fisher, who will only create mazes that can be walked through, draws a clear distinction between himself and Mr. Corn mazes are less expensive at about $50,000. He charges about $500,000 for an elaborate mirror maze. Fisher, who also helped the city of London design bus maps and a water maze around a yellow submarine at a Beatles exhibition in Liverpool that was attended by the Queen of England. "There are only 150 mirror mazes in the world, and I've designed 43 of them," says Mr. Fisher, who has designed over 600 mazes in 30 countries. Indeed, mazes, which evolved from single-path labyrinths, first appeared around 1500, when they were incorporated into Renaissance gardens in Italy, says maze expert Adrian Fisher, author of "The Art of the Maze." Mirror mazes and other variations followed in the 19th century, with the rise of fairs and expositions and amusement parks, says Mr. "I think that mazes can be a form of graphic storytelling. Impatient to get home, he drew a car, packed and ready to go. "You'll see pancakes in the drawing, or a nice juicy steak," Mr. CEO Jesse Schell says he has always been fascinated by mazes. His biggest sponsor is Schell Games, a Pittsburgh-based videogame designer, which paid him $2,000 to incorporate its logo into the maze. Visit Pittsburgh is a sponsor, so there will be the Steel City skyline. ![]() Wos to draw its iconic cartoon tuna into the center. ![]() StarKist, a unit of South Korea's Dongwon Industries, paid $500 for Mr. He has woven 50 illustrations into his maze, including some from paid sponsors, from whom he has raised $4,000, so he can take the maze to museums and fairs. Try your hand at three mazes by puzzle maker Joe Wos. "As I'm drawing the maze, I keep five or six open spots," to avoid boxing himself in, he says. He spent 20 minutes drawing a factory and realized he had closed off his exit so he put an "Out of Order" sign on it and picked up from an open spot. When he makes a mistake, he turns it into an illustration. He uses a black Sharpie, rather than a pencil and eraser. Wos began drawing July 27 and hopes to finish by the end of September. Wos's proposal on condition that it be 10 square meters, or 107.6 square feet, drawn by him alone, with witnesses-five people are witnessing and signing off at regular intervals-and that it be solvable. "The world's largest hand-drawn maze seemed to be my unique niche," says Mr. But there was nothing on hand-drawn mazes, says Sara Wilcox, a spokeswoman. Guinness already had six maze-related records, including corn field and garden mazes as well as the longest walk through a horror house maze (the Dead or ALIVE house in Ube, Japan), and the longest ice maze (Arctic Glacier Ice Maze at the Buffalo Powder Keg Festival in Buffalo, N.Y., in February 2010). Joe Wos works on his attempt at the world's largest hand-drawn maze. ![]()
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