CORINNA — For the audience of “American Loggers,” the Pelletier family is synonymous with the North Maine Woods.

This fall, thanks to Charles and Barbara Peavey, the Pelletier brothers are also immersed in cornstalks in Corinna.

The Peaveys, owners of the third-generation Thunder Road Farm, have an 8-acre corn maze in the shape of an “AmericanLoggers.com” logging truck off Moosehead Trail.

The names of the seven Pelletier brothers — Danny, 57; Eldon, 56; Rudy, 55; Larry, 54; Gary, 52; Jeff, 43; and Wayne, 42 — are carved out of the stalks adjacent to the maze.

While the maze may not be as hair-raising as hauling timber on an ice-covered logging trail, Barbara Peavey said it can take more than 60 minutes to successfully wind through the packed dirt paths between the 10-foot-tall stalks.

“The logs stump them up,” smiled Barbara Peavey, “pun intended.”

Barbara Peavey said her husband, Charles is a huge fan of the Discovery Channel show “American Loggers” so she obtained permission from the Pelletiers to use them as inspiration for the design and the Peaveys’ eighth annual corn maze was born.

The Peaveys are excited that Saturday, Oct. 15 at noon, the seven Pelletier brothers — as well as their mother, Lena, and other family members are slated to visit the farm.

The Pelletiers will maneuver through the maze, sample the chicken barbecue, sign autographs, pose for photographs and greet the public. Oct. 16 is the rain date for the event.

Barbara Peavey credits Lauchlin W. Titus, the Peaveys’ soil consultant, for getting them involved in the maze business.

Titus told Barbara Peavey about a corn maze at Keith and Angela Harris’ Pumpkin Valley Farm in Dayton and suggested the Peaveys add a corn maze to complement their pumpkin patch attraction.

Barbara said Keith Harris highly recommended Brett Herbst’s MAiZE company, which has designed more than 1,800 corn mazes since 1996.

When Barbara Peavey told her husband about the prospect, he balked and recalled saying, “There’s no way anyone is going to walk through a field of corn.”

He has had to eat his words.

Each fall, in the 14 days the Corinna maze is open to the public — six weekends from Sept. 17 through Oct. 29, plus the Friday before and Monday of Columbus Day — that’s exactly what 6,000 to 9,000 fans do.

The design of the Peaveys’ first maze alongside Moosehead Trail was a lobster and lighthouse. The Boston Red Sox have twice been featured (in the respective falls after the team won each of its recent World Series).

Other themes have saluted the troops, celebrated Corinna and the state’s 16 counties, and lauded Mike & Mike, the radio personalities on Kiss 94.5 radio station.

The feedback, said the Peaveys, has been rewarding.

“Where else can you please 99 percent of people these days?” asked Charles.

Barbara said the hayride, the corn maze and farm produce, including strawberries, peas, raspberries, squash, string beans, squash, pumpkins, tomatoes and cucumbers, teach guests about life on a farm.

“It’s amazing that a lot of adults don’t really know where their food comes from,” she said. “They think it comes from opening a can” rather than seeds.

Because of this past wet spring, it was June 20 when an area farmer planted corn seeds horizontally and vertically in eight acres of soil to produce what is now lush, thick, green stalk walls.

This summer, when the corn was but three inches high, three workers from the American Fork, Utah-based MAiZE company cut out the AmericanLoggers.com design in the crop in fewer than four hours.

Nature has done the rest.

Today, the tassel tops are about 10 feet high.

In addition to the maze, Thunder Road Farm offers hay rides, a pirate ship playground, basketball hoops, tetherball, a corn box and other child-friendly attractions.

The maize is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays until Oct. 29 and the same hours Friday, Oct. 7 and Columbus Day on Monday, Oct. 10.

Groups of 15 may tour the maze seven days a week from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; each person in the group will receive $1 off admission.

Haunted hay rides and a chance to sneak through the maze at night will be offered Oct. 28-29, 6:30-10 p.m.

The fee is $7 per person ages 4 and older; younger visitors are free. People will be admitted up to one hour before the maze closes.

The maze is closed when it rains; Barbara Peavey suggested if people are unsure whether it is open to call ahead at 207-278-3708.

For more information about the farm and maze, visit www.thunderroadfarm.com.

Beth Staples — 861-9252

[email protected]