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Maple Sugar Festival

 Saturdays & Sundays, March 17-18 & 24-25
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, food tastings, open-hearth cooking in our historic village, a maple sugar history trail and even brewing up some maple beer.
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.
 (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 adult category will win museum pottery. Gift certificates will go to youth winners.)
Enjoy the Pancake and Sausage Breakfast 9 a.m.-1 p.m. with real maple syrup! Then plan to take home a bit of the maple season with a visit to our museum shops.

From syrup to maple coffee and maple tea, the Flint Hill Country Store is the place to go for all things maple all during this Maple sugaring program.