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TITLE: EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT MAPLE SYRUP - lecture
LIVING HISTORY MAPLE SUGARING PROGRAM
School Field Trips and Other Organized Groups
Dates: Wednesday through Friday, March 10-12
Time: 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM
Pre-registration required; call 908-782-1158
Public Open House
Date: Saturday, March 13
Time: 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM
Pre-registration is not required.
Location: Echo Hill
Ages: All
Cost: $1 per person suggested donation
NOTE: Tours begin every 30 minutes and last about 1 hour.
LIVING HISTORY MAPLE SUGARING PROGRAM
Native Americans discovered the sweet quality of sugar maple sap before written history. For hundreds, maybe even thousands of years, Native Americans would set up camp in a stand of sugar maples during the sap run. The sugar they produced was an important food for them and for the colonists, who learned the process from the Native Americans. It was only during the 1930s when maple sugar took the form we use today: syrup!
Experience first-hand the North American tradition of maple sugaring at the Hunterdon County Department of Parks & Recreation's Maple Sugaring Program. You’ll take a trip through time to experience the art of the sugaring process. Along the way you will visit a sugar “farmer” at his evaporator, see an early American Frontiersman taping his trees and enjoy a local Native American legend about the discovery of maple sap. At the end of your walk everyone will get a free taste of our very own Hunterdon County maple syrup on a silver dollar pancake.
This year, our program runs Wednesday through Saturday, March 10-13. We host organized groups, including school classes, scouting groups, and clubs, during the weekdays. The first tour begins at 9:00 AM and the last begins at 4:40 PM, and each is about an hour. We ask for a $1 per person donation. If you are interested, please reserve your spot at 908-782-1158.
Saturday is our open house, when individuals or families can come. We ask that groups do not come this day. Our tours run every 20 minutes, with the first beginning at 10:00 AM and the last beginning at 2:00 PM. Again, we ask for $1 per person to help support the program. There is no need to pre-register for the open house—just show up!
All maple sugaring tours take place at Echo Hill, at 42 Lilac Drive in Flemington. We hope you will join us to experience this North American tradition!
To registrater, call the Parks Department at (908) 782-1158.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 02/04/2010
CONTACT: Liz Braidwood Fulmer, Recreation Leader First Release
(908) 782-1158, lfulmer@co.hunterdon.nj.us