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Sap, Syrup & Sugar
Saturdays & Sundays, March 13-14
, 20-21 & 27-28
Sugaring program 10 a.m.- 4 p.m.
Pancake Breakfast 9 a.m.- 1 p.m.
Celebrate a unique North American tradition with self-guided walks to the sugar bush, 19th-century and modern syrup-making demos and tastings, plus plenty of activities around the museum, including hands-on crafts, games and storytelling, food tastings, dancing, open-hearth cooking in our historic village and a maple sugar history trail.
(Maple syrup isn’t just for pancakes, of course. It adds exquisite flavor to all sorts of foods, especially baked goods. Test how good your favorite maple recipe is in our Maple Baking Contest. The prize winners in each category get to spend a day in costume working alongside one of our 19th-century cooks.)
Maple-sugaring activities including log hewing, spile carving, tree tapping, sap collection and boiling down the sap to syrup and sugar.
New this spring—For those who really want to get into the spirit, spend the day working side by side with one of our cooks, and really learn how maple sugar was made in the 19th century.
Be part of the show as you dress in period clothing and work by the outdoor fire at our sugar camp, boiling maple sap until it thickens into syrup. When it threads, it’s ready to be stirred into sugar!
Contact Maria Neale (585-538-6822) for details. Ages 16 to adult. ($75/$50 members per day)
