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magazine / ja07
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July/August 2007 issue |
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FEATURE
Cracking the nature nut
Inside the creepy, crawly world of science
guy John Acorn, where ants taste like
lemon, beetles inspire haikus and the yard
is full of magnificent creatures just waiting
to be discovered
By Candace Savage
John Acorn, the Nature Nut, lives in an ordinary house on an ordinary
street in an ordinary middle-class neighbourhood in west Edmonton.
It's only after you're welcomed inside that things get
interesting.
"I'm afraid we're having a little sasquatch trouble," says
Acorn quietly,
his long face twisted into a rueful grin. Sure enough, a squat, furry
creature with big, round eyes and an ear-to-ear smile is standing
in the
living room, wagging its scraggly fingers and brandishing long claws.
A careful distance away, Acorn's young son Benny is watching
the thing
warily, still not entirely convinced that it's only his big
brother, Jesse,
in a costume left over from Dad's glory days on television.
From 1994 to 1999, Acorn was known nationally and internationally
as the star of a genial and unaffectedly goofy natural-science series,
"Acorn: The Nature Nut." The program ran for a grand total
of 91
episodes, or seven seasons, a spectacular achievement in a business
that
is notorious for eating its young, and it still turns up on the schedule
now and then in Canada and the United States.
For the rest of this story, visit your local newsstand or go to our store to buy this issue.
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