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Carole sips a syrup sample at Burgess Sugarhouse in Underhill. |
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The Burgess Sugarhouse evaporator at work. |
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Carole happily points to a helpful sign at the Davis Family Farm sugarhouse in Underhill. |
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Jay inspects the Davis evaporator. (Mr. Lee Davis, Vermont Outstanding Young Sugarmaker 2007, is to his left.) |
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Jay peers up at the escaping steam as Mr. Davis holds up fingers to indicate a measurement. The size of Jay's brain? Who knows? |
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Carole with more exhibits at the Davis sugarhouse. |
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Carole samples some fresh-from-the-evaporator syrup at the Davis sugarhouse. |
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Carole has some yummy Sugar-on-Snow at the Davis sugarhouse. |
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Still at the Davis sugarhouse, Carole points to a cross-section of a maple trunk showing tapping scars from many years of sap collecting. |
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In Essex, Joe Jordan explains the fundamentals of sugarmaking to Carole. |
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At the Jordan sugarhouse, Carole brandishes a 'sugar devil' used in olden times to break up hardened maple sugar in a barrel. |
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In Westford, Jay checks out the gleaming evaporator at Snow Hill Farm. |
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Jay and the Snow Hill Farm evaporator. |
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At Snow Hill Farm, Carole licks maple icing from her fingers. |
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We bought some syrup from each sugarhouse -- plus some maple candy and maple cashews -- and brought it all home for our moose, Theo, to enjoy. |
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Theo proudly shows off all his new maple products! |
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