A Moment in Time
This figure is inspired by childhood memories of working in our family’s maple sugar orchard. Each spring (March & April) we would come home from school, change our clothes and snowshoe a mile or so through the fields to the orchard.
Dad would have us check buckets and collect sap. If we were lucky, my
sisters and I would get to taste the fresh maple syrup from the latest sample
bottle. As it started to get dark, we would pile on the trailer pulled by our
Cub tractor and dad would give us a ride back to the farm.
Each year my sisters and I would insist on trying the yokes to carry the sap to the gathering tanks. One trip would remind us how uncomfortable they were but it took years for us to give up wearing the handmade yokes.
Our orchard is located on the north slope of Mount Madison with many Randolph Mountain Club (RMC) trails threading their way through the maple trees where our family has been sugaring for five generations.
The first sugar house was built by my grandfather during World War II. My father was serving in the Army and my mother decided to continue sugaring.
Boiling the sap was done in an evaporator outside in the open air. My grandfather thought it was wrong to have his daughter-in-law working outside in the cold air so he build the sugar house around her as she was making syrup.
This figure (either boy or girl) wears a hand-knit hat and mittens with a long red
coat and wool pants. He or she is carrying two buckets of “sap” with an old
fashioned yoke and carrying snowshoes. The Maple Sugarer comes complete with 1.4 ounces of 100% Pure New Hampshire Maple Syrup.
Dad would have us check buckets and collect sap. If we were lucky, my
sisters and I would get to taste the fresh maple syrup from the latest sample
bottle. As it started to get dark, we would pile on the trailer pulled by our
Cub tractor and dad would give us a ride back to the farm.
Each year my sisters and I would insist on trying the yokes to carry the sap to the gathering tanks. One trip would remind us how uncomfortable they were but it took years for us to give up wearing the handmade yokes.
Our orchard is located on the north slope of Mount Madison with many Randolph Mountain Club (RMC) trails threading their way through the maple trees where our family has been sugaring for five generations.
The first sugar house was built by my grandfather during World War II. My father was serving in the Army and my mother decided to continue sugaring.
Boiling the sap was done in an evaporator outside in the open air. My grandfather thought it was wrong to have his daughter-in-law working outside in the cold air so he build the sugar house around her as she was making syrup.
This figure (either boy or girl) wears a hand-knit hat and mittens with a long red
coat and wool pants. He or she is carrying two buckets of “sap” with an old
fashioned yoke and carrying snowshoes. The Maple Sugarer comes complete with 1.4 ounces of 100% Pure New Hampshire Maple Syrup.
Maple Sugarer
SaraSally North Country Personalities
$
115.00
