More from Karen Brown
Living with Hypochondria: The Real Costs of Imagined Illness
(00:28:56)
From: Karen Brown
Woody Allen made hypochondria famous as a source of self-deprecating humor, but this clinical condition can be seriously debilitating for individuals and their families -- ...
Surrogacy Among Friends
(00:06:58)
From: Karen Brown
A woman carries a baby to term for her best friend, whose chronic disease would make pregnancy hazardous.
Child Obesity - Part Three - Spreading the Lifestyle
(00:05:17)
From: Karen Brown
Families in the low-income community of Holyoke, MA -- who successfully lost weight through a community clinic program -- are trying to share their newfound lifestyle with ...
Child Obesity - Part Two - Kihuanna's Story
(00:05:17)
From: Karen Brown
This feature profiles a 9-year-old girl named Kihuanna who, at 4 foot one and 139 pounds, has a body mass index twice what it should be. With the help of her family and ...
Child Obesity - Part One -- The Clinical Approach
(00:05:05)
From: Karen Brown
One health center in Holyoke, MA addresses the 50 percent rate of overweight and obese children in this predominantly low-income, Puerto Rican community.
Women's College Cheerleaders Challenge Stereotype
(00:05:02)
From: Karen Brown
A new cheerleading squad at one of the country's pre-eminent women's colleges -- alma mater of Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan -- is raising eyebrows with its short skirts ...
Urgent Care Clinics -- Taking on the Primary Care Overflow in Health Care
(00:05:21)
From: Karen Brown
Urgent Care clinics are doing brisk business as the primary care shortage sends patients their way.
Veterans on Campus - A Challenge to Adjust
(00:05:03)
From: Karen Brown
Veterans are entering college in droves thanks to the new GI bill -- but they often need help adjusting to campus life, and not all colleges are prepared for that.
Health Reform Part 3 - Who Benefits from Massachusetts Public Programs
(00:05:28)
From: Karen Brown
Who benefits from the greatly expanded public health programs, and who doesn't.
Health Reform Part 2 - The Individual Mandate in Massachusetts
(00:05:35)
From: Karen Brown
How the Massachusetts public is responding to the law that requires them to buy health insurance
Related Pieces
Piece Description
What could be a more appropriate homage to a cook than to have her likeness rendered in food? Or corn stalks, to be exact. At a farm in Western Massachusetts, visitors can wander through a cornfield engraved in the shape of the world's favorite french chef -- Julia Child. Karen Brown reports. This piece aired on WFCR in Amherst, MA on August 29, 2006. A shorter version ran on NPR's Weekend Edition on August 27, 2006.
Broadcast History
Aired on WFCR in Amherst, MA on August 29, 2006.
Shorter version aired on NPR's WeSat on August 26, 2006.
Transcript
TRAX1: IF YOU HAPPEN TO BE FLYING OVER THE HOLYOKE MOUNTAIN RANGE THIS FALL.....YOU'LL PASS OVER BUCOLIC ROLLING HILLS......THE GLISTENING CONNECTICUT RIVER......THE FACE OF THE LATE JULIA CHILD....
OH -- YOU WEREN'T EXPECTING TO SEE JULIA'S FACE? WELL, IT WAS ALMOST SOMEONE ELSE'S.
AX1: we were thinking of marilyn monroe, indira ghandi....
THAT'S MIKE WISSEMAN, THE SUNDERLAND FARMER WHO -- FOR THE PAST SIX YEARS -- HAS TURNED 7 ACRES OF HIS CORNFIELD INTO THE FACE OF SOMEONE FAMOUS. HE TEAMS UP WITH A LOCAL ARTIST, WILL SILLIN, WHO DESIGNS THE MAZES -- THEY'VE DONE KING TUT, BABE RUTH, ALBERT EINSTEIN. AND THIS YEAR, SILLIN SAYS -- THEY COULDN'T RESIST CARVING THEIR EDIBLE CROP INTO A TRIBUTE TO ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS CHEFS. JULIA CHILD -- WHO DIED IN 2004 -- WAS ALSO LONG-TIME MASSACHUSETTS RESIDENT AND A GRADUATE OF SMITH COLLEGE IN NORTHAMPTON.
AX2: she's just an...
Read the full transcript
Timing and Cues
4:00 -- ends with "I'm Karen Brown."
Additional Files
- photo of corn maze (juliachildmazehires.jpg)
Related Website
Of 4 purchasers of this piece...
- 5 also bought:A Cowboy Christmas (00:54:24)
- 4 also bought:
We Were On Duty (00:53:37) - 4 also bought:
Haunted Cabin (00:19:52) - 4 also bought:The Book (00:11:38)
- 4 also bought:
Radiolab, Show 102: Stress (00:58:54)
