Sugaring Season at Old Sturbridge Village’s maple days (PHOTOS)
It may have been a little early for Massachusetts’ traditional sugaring season, when maples are tapped for sap to boil down to delicious syrup, but some young campers still got some first-hand experience in the art.
Discovery Adventure campers participated in three- or five-day programs at Old Sturbridge Village, a living and vibrant outdoor history museum in Sturbridge that depicts what life in a rural New England town was like in the early 19th century.
They learned not only the art of syrup making, but took in other classes and demonstrations like pottery making.
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Nantucket’s George Butterworth inserts a tap made of sumac into the trunk of a sugar maple while volunteering during Old Sturbridge Village’s maple days. (Libby O’Neill/Boston Herald)
Sap from a red soft maple collects into a troth at Old Sturbridge Village. (Libby O’Neill/Boston Herald)
Sap from a red soft maple collects into a troth at Old Sturbridge Village. (Libby O’Neill/Boston Herald)
A Discovery Adventure camper stands by a table full of clay sculptures inside the pottery shop at Old Sturbridge Village. (Libby O’Neill/Boston Herald)
Spencer’s Jeffery Friedman gives a pottery demonstration at Old Sturbridge Village. (Libby O’Neill/Boston Herald)
Discovery Adventure campers focus on a blacksmith demonstration at Old Sturbridge Village. (Libby O’Neill/Boston Herald)
Spencer’s Jeffery Friedman shows Discovery Adventure campers pieces that were made inside the pottery shop at Old Sturbridge Village. (Libby O’Neill/Boston Herald)
Discovery Adventure campers walk along a dirt road in costume at Old Sturbridge Village. (Libby O’Neill/Boston Herald)
Ashburnham’s David Caruso shows campers a trivet that was made in the Old Sturbridge Village’s blacksmith shop. (Libby O’Neill/Boston Herald)
Discovery Adventure campers walk along a dirt road in costume at Old Sturbridge Village. (Libby O’Neill/Boston Herald)
Ashburnham’s David Caruso holds up a half-finished trivet during a demonstration at Old Sturbridge Village’s blacksmith shop. (Libby O’Neill/Boston Herald)
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