Conrete Corn

Started by TehBorken, Mar 28 06 03:40

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   [img]vny!://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/images/oh/OHDUBcorn02.jpg" alt="Field of Corn." class="floatrightborder" height="208" width="400"][!-- InstanceEndEditable --]
  [h1][!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="attraction_title" --]Field of Concrete Corn [!-- InstanceEndEditable --][/h1][span class="townstate"]Dublin, [a href="vny!://www.roadsideamerica.com/map/oh.html" target="_top"]Ohio[/a][!-- InstanceEndEditable --][/span]
Maybe   it's supposed to be ironic, this former corn field,  sprouting 109 people-sized   ears of concrete corn in a large oddball art display. But it's also a salute  to Sam Frantz, an inventor of hybrid corns, and a very weird sight along  the highway. [/p][img]vny!://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/images/oh/OHDUBcorn04.jpg" alt="Field of Corn." class="floatleftborder" height="280" width="248"][/p]Frantz     farmed this site from 1935 to 1963, using it as as  a study field for tasty mutant strains. Frantz was "well known  for his development of hybrid corn seeds," and worked with Ohio State University on hybridization projects. He donated this land, now named     Sam and Eulalia Frantz Park, after its farming days were over.  
[/p]The artist brought in by the Dublin Arts Council to create the environment  of corn, Malcolm Cochran, completed the field in 1994. A row of old Osage  Orange Trees anchors  the west side of the park, where you'll find signs explaining hybridization and describing  the project. Three different molds were used to create the concrete ears of corn. The  variety  Cochran used is a "double-cross hybrid called Corn Belt Dent Corn."[/p] Intended by the Arts Council to remind residents of the area's long-gone agricultural heritage, the Field  of Corn instantly became a  joke -- giant inedible food -- paid for with  tax dollars, and surrounded by a sprawl of corporate offices,  bland businesses  and suburban neighborhoods. [/p] [div class="attractfacts"](Field Of Giant Corn Ears: 4995 Rings Rd, Dublin, OH  [[a class="maplink" href="vny!://www.roadsideamerica.com/geo/showMap.php?attractionNo=988"]Show Map[/a]]  Directions: I-270 to the Tuttle Crossing Blvd exit. Drive east a half-mile, then turn left on Frantz Road. Drive another half-mile. The corn will be on your left, at the interesction of Rings Rd. Hours: Daylight hours.)[/div]    
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