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A 5-INSTALLMENT NEWS SUMMARY CONCERNING THE CANDY CORN CULTURE.  

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NATIONAL CANDY CORN DAY IS OCTOBER 30TH
From the halls of the North American Candy Corn Council (located in Knoxville, Tennessee) to the board room of the national headquarters of the  Vegetarian Candy Eaters of America (located in Omaha, Nebraska), from the kitchens of the Dickinson Candy Corn Company to the family room of your own home, "Aw hallaw! Ye'll have had yer candy corn," the official greeting on National Candy Corn Day, is heard over and over and over again!   Here's wishing you the best on NCCD as you chow down on America's favorite candy -- but be sure to celebrate responsibly!

What do you wear on National Candy Corn Day?  A candy corn hat?  A candy corn tie?  Candy corn earrings?  Or perhaps a complete candy corn suit?

Andy Warhol, a lover of Emmett Lee Dickinson (the inventor of candy corn -- and Emily Dickinson's third cousin, twice removed -- at her request) is said to have owned more than a dozen different candy corn suits.  Some are currently on display at the Emmett Lee Dickinson Museum (above the coin-on Laundromat on Dickinson Boulevard in historic Washerst, PA), and they are on loan from the Andy Warhol Museum (near Galardi's 30 Minute Cleaners on Forbes Avenue in Pittsburgh).  Some of Warhol's suits are on display HERE (scroll to the entry dated 10/30).
87% of all the candy corn consumed in the United States is produced at the Dickinson Candy Corn Company, and 100% of that is hand-painted by certified candy cornologists at their ultra-modern candy corn factory in historic Washerst, Pennsylvania, birthplace of Emmett Lee Dickinson -- the inventor of candy corn and Emily Dickinson's third cousin, twice removed (at her request).

Whenever you buy candy corn, be sure to ask for the best.  Be sure to ask for Dickinson's!
Join us for a very special event at Candy Corn Park from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.  The Emmett Lee Dickinson Museum (above the coin-op Laundromat on Dickinson Boulevard) and the North American Candy Corn Council (NACCC) have hired park guardians to help distribute packets of candy corn to the homeless.   

The crime rate in the park is always at its lowest on National Candy Corn Day, so bring the kids and bring the oldsters -- c'mon down to the park and have a great time throwing candy corn packs at the homeless!
Did you know that 87% of the world's candy corn is produced at the Dickinson Candy Corn Company in historic Washerst, Pennsylvania?

Pictured at the right:  Certified candy cornologists plan the production of candy corn for National Candy Corn Day.
Pictured at the left:  Former First Lady Laura Bush was the Corn Queen at the Lubbock, Texas, Corn and Candy Corn Festival in 1967.

Pictured below:  Vintage postcards with the tradition saying for National Candy Corn Day.
Andy Warhol, who attended the Emmett Lee Dickinson School for Boys in Pittsburgh, painted "Candy Corn" in 1961. 

"Candy Corn" and his other canvasses of the confection that Dickinson invented dominated Warhol's first one-man gallery exhibition as an artist in the Ferus Gallery of Los Angeles, California. The exhibition marked the West Coast debut of pop art, known in the 1960s as the "candy corn movement."

"Candy Corn" was purchased by the Museum of Modern Art in 1998 for 17 million dollars.  Warhol's first painting of a Campbell's soup can -- "Corn Chowder" (shown below) also hangs in the Museum of Modern Art.  Emmett Lee Dickinson invented corn chowder, and Warhol said he painted the can to pay homage to the poet.


"Hemmingway was wrong," said Warhol (referring to Ernest Hemmingway's quote, “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since").  Warhol continued, "All of modern America comes from Emmett Lee Dickinson.  Our literature, our poetry, our culture and our art."
Celebrate with us on October 30th --
National Candy Corn Day!
Do you know the Top 5 Traditions of National Candy Corn Day? 
See below to find out!
Above:  Andy Warhol's masterpiece, "Emmett Lee Dickinson's
Corn Chowder."

TOP 5 NATIONAL CANDY CORN DAY TRADITIONS

Below are the top five traditions that people observe on National Candy Corn Day:
#5:  Leaf bag:  Take bags of leaves from your yard & dump them in your neighbors' yards & on their porches.  NCCD fun!

#4:  Put salt in your shoes!  We're not sure exactly how this tradition started -- but it is the fourth most popular tradition on NCCD.

#3:  Tell "why did the chicken cross the road" and "waiter, there's a fly in my soup" jokes!

#2:  Enjoy a candy corn omelette with pure maple syrup! YUM!

#1:  Of course, the number one tradition on National Candy Corn Day:  Enjoy some candy corn!

The traditional
greeting on
National Candy Corn:

"Aw hallaw!  Ye'll have had yer candy corn!"

It means "if you come into my house on National Candy Corn Day, you will certainly have your fill of candy corn!"
Pictured below:  The Dickinson Candy Corn Company (center) uses the freshest corn from the annual Washerst Fair & Corn Expo (left) to make delicious candy corn sold around the world (right).



Pictured at the right:  Since the late 1800s, Washerst's Annual Candy Corn Cotillion in Dickinson Park is the place to see and be seen on National Candy Corn Day.

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All things Emmett Lee Dickinson (poetry, museum stuff, Washerst facts and figures, etc.) © 2013 & 2014 by Jim Asher