For the first day of autumn, my girlfriend and I decided to celebrate by heading to Oskaloosa to tour a corn maze. We had never been in a corn maze before, and visions of Stephen King’s Children of the Corn danced through our heads.

The easiest route, we thought, would be Highway 92 to Osky.

Whenever I’m in the Sigourney area, also on Highway 92, I love to stop at Snakenburg Farms, just east of Sigourney. They raise pigs the old fashioned way — outdoors. There’s a name for that now — “free-range” — and the Snakenburgs have a huge operation of free-range pigs.