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Sap, Syrup & Sugar

 Saturdays & Sundays, March 12-13, 19-20 & 26-27

Sugaring program 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m.
Breakfast 9 a.m.- 1 p.m.

The sugar maple provides cooling shade in the summer, glorious color in the fall and blazing heat as firewood in the winter. 

But, ah, it is in the spring when Acer saccharum is at its most splendid.
It is then, during the chill nights and sunny days, that the sap begins to flow and the age-old North American tradition of maple sugaring begins anew.
Celebrate this special time at the museum in March with a Pancake Breakfast, self-guided walks to the sugar bush, 19th-century and modern syrup-making demos and tastings.
The entire museum will be alive with activities—including hands-on crafts, games and storytelling, food tastings, dancing, open-hearth cooking in our historic village, a maple cooking contest 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 Cooking with Maple Contest. The prize winners in each category get to spend a day in costume working in the historic village alongside one of our 19th-century cooks.)
(Judges for this year's contest are: Dan Eaton of YNN’s Cooking at Home; François Lachance,  plant manager of Churchville’s Star of the West Milling Co.; Karen Miltner, staff food writer for the Democrat and Chronicle; and Sally Santora of the Livingston County News.)
 
Maple-sugaring activities including log hewing, spile carving, tree tapping, sap collection and boiling down the sap to syrup and sugar. Visit the cooper and tinsmith as they make buckets for collecting sap. Create a maple leaf tin ornament to take home ($). Along the way, collect puzzle pieces for your Maple Passport and search for the elusive Felicity.
Enjoy the Pancake and Sausage Breakfast 9 a.m.-1 p.m. ($8 for adults, $6 for youth and free for ages 3 and under) with real maple syrup! Then plan to take home a bit of the maple season with a visit to our museum shops.
 
Admission to Sap, Syrup & Sugar is adults $8/ $6 members; youth $6/$4 members. Children 3 and younger are admitted free.