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Vermont Life Spring 1957: basic how-to's of backyard sugaring with lots of photos

Vermont Life August 1957: Cornwall wheat farmer Justin Brande and whole wheat bread made by baker, Steve Baker

At Porter Thayer's Parrish Road house.

Deer hanging upside down surrounded by about twenty hunters. Many of the hunters are holding rifles. Small tent is set up in the background.

View of an outdoor sugar making operation. Pictured are sap buckets, a boiler over a wood-fire, logs for the fire, and an axe for cutting wood.

Horses pulling sap into the sugarhouse. Man pictured in the doorway. Smoke coming from chimney. Boy pictured in front with sled. Two individuals pictured in the back, one is driving the horses, the other is carrying two buckets.

Men pouring maple sap from a horse drawn wagon, which drains into a container in a sugarhouse.

Green Mountain Whittlin's/Green Mountain Folklore Society VOL LII, 48: dad growing up hunting in Windsor county, hunting rituals but never brought one home because Ct. wife couldn't handle a dead deer

interviews with Ray Keyser of Proctor, one-term Vt gov - mostly hunting as a social activity/tradition, no food prep included

November 1988 interview with Drs. Taylor/Foulds of UVM interviews about changes in sugaring technology from the 1940s on. Also mention of Vermont Maple Sugarmakers Assoc. early days.