| The Maize Maze in Elgin! |
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| MAZE VISIT 2008 TEACHER PLANNER- INFORMATION FORM School____________________________________________________ Date of tour_____________________Time______________________________ Rain date__________________ No. of Students________________no.of adults_________________ Contact person___________________________ Address_____________________________________ Telephone no. ________________________ Email address_______________________________ Quoted price/student, includes teachers and help. $3 Request teacher packet?______________date sent____________ Special requests: Lunch-30 minutes____________ Maze visit only--30 minutes__________ Maze with mail boxes- 45 minutes____________ Old machinery story telling, includes hand picking popcorn and indian corn-45 minutes______________ Nature Center, 30 minutes ____________ Dummermuth farm museum--30 minutes_______________ Laverne Swenson ph-563-423-5927 cell-563-419-1133 1-866-630-3194 email-lagracia@acegroup.cc Nature center Dawn Amundson 563-426-5740 |
| SCHOOL FIELD TRIPS Fall-2008 MAZE-MAZE-MAZE TAKO Gilbertson Nature Center ½ mile east of Elgin, Iowa Solve the Maze • solve the mini-mazes • find the mail boxes • learn about TAKO • learn about corn • learn about places to visit in NE Iowa that tell the story of our agricultural past • learn about corn planting as our ancestors did it • learn how corn was picked by our parents and grand parents. • PICK YOUR OWN POPCORN, then shell it • PICK YOUR OWN Indian flint corn • See stuffed eagles, squirrels, deer, frogs, snakes, turtles, huge brown bear. • Visit Dummermuth museum with all kinds of old tools, implements. • tour a house that is preserved as it was 80 years ago CALL- Laverne Swenson Mazemaster 1-866-630-3194 cell-563-419-1133 email-lagracia@acegroup.cc Nature Center, Dawn Amundson 563-426-5740 email-gncfccb@alpinecom.net |
| Country Heritage Community MAIZE MAZE You and your spouse are invited to a Night out with free ice cream and your favorite topping tour the Maze site challenge the maze if you wish-free view the historical preservation, story telling machinery pick your own indian corn and maybe popcorn, if dry enough tour the Gilbertson nature center the Dummermuth museum and house as it was 90 years ago. All this as a way of thanking you for supporting the Fayette county Gilbertson grounds and Maize Maze Friday Sept.5 PM till dark. 1/2 mile east of Elgin on B64. Laverne Swenson mazemaster and CHC president 563-419-1133 |
| BREAKING NEWS: There are signs at the Maize Maze entrance telling that when you go through the maze , you might see signs of some very famous people that MAY BE ALIVE ,BUT ARE MISSING. Elvis, big foot, and Amelia Erhart are 3 that have been sighted. Well, last night, 3 families from Chicago, were going through the maze in the dark when they saw a creature with very long white hair moving through the corn. Since it was almost dark they couldn't tell who it was, but they think it might be BIG FOOT, only much older. It was very big, and didn't like to be seen by people. It didn't smell but it was very ugly. Then , another group saw what looked like a person that had been dead for many years, had long straggly hair, kind of all wet and the face was almost all bones. THEY WERE GUESSING IT TO BE possibily Amelia Erhart. Now 2 of the men with the group are fire men from Chicago, so they can see much better in the dark. Anyway when they saw the creatures one can imagine the panic from the kids, even though the maze master had warned them they might have a sighting of some of these missing people. Now the ground is very hard in the maze, so tracks are very hard to see. Also the corn is some 11 to 12 feet tall with very very dense leaves, so following them is impossible.They didn't have any smell either. So, anyway, the maze master is now convinced that sightings of the 'MISSING PEOPLE" is really true and all visitors will be warned to watch for "STRANGERS" in the cornfield. |
| MAIZE MAZE APPRECIATION NIGHT. Sept. 5, 5 PM. |
