And Another Thing About Corn

My love affair with corn began for real last weekend at Urbana’s Annual Sweetcorn Festival. These people LOVE their corn. This is a wise strategy for survival, as they are completely surrounded by the stuff, for miles in every direction. Don’t want to make the crops mad at ya and have them close in.

To recap, for those of you that don’t live near a farm, here’s what corn looks like:

And here's what I look like at the Festival, trying to blend in with the scenery:


The Sweet Corn Festival even had corn entertainment, not just corn and corn dogs and funnel cake. Watched a local favorite, a band called Cornmeal which was an amped-up bluegrass deal that favored Grateful Dead-length solos, which were greatly appreciated by their dancing, tie-dyed fans.



Note the pile of Birkenstocks in the foreground, put together for safekeeping, Strength in numbers.



My night at the Corn Festival was finished off with a Led Zepplin tribute band called ZoSo. The band's commitment to replicating Zep was truly something to behold. It was night so the photo's not the greatest but just check out the gauzy shirt and rock and roll hair of a bygone era.















ZoSo is beyond a tribute band and I would place them in the higher category of "re-enacters". Some guys like to pretend they're Ulysess S. Grant in the Civil War and other guys like to pretend they're Robert Plant in the greatest band of all time. They're all living the dream, each in their own way.