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I saw the corncob Papa had been working on when the barn cat pounced, all that time ago.

Today, kids delight in stacking candy corn in a circle, points in, to create corncob towers.

“It just popped into my head: I wonder if there’s anything we could do with corncobs,” she said.

“Cut loose from the world,” he added, “chewing on his corncob pipe, the boy was blissfully lost in this stillwater paradise.”

The fastest and least messy method I’ve found for cutting the kernels off a corncob is to lay the ear flat on a cutting board, then slice off the kernels, turning as you cut.