Maple Sugaring Demonstration

Maple sugaring has been practiced by New England’s Indigenous Peoples for thousands of years. Abenaki Peoples followed a multi-step process for collecting and condensing maple sap into sweeteners, a process refined and passed down orally from one generation to the next.  

On Saturday, March 25 please join Dan Shears, Material Culture Advisor for the Nulhegan Abenaki tribe’s Cultural and Historic Preservation Department, and Brian Chenevert, Nulhegan Abenaki tribal historian, in Nowashe Village for a Maple Sugaring Demonstration. Dan and Brian will discuss the maple sugaring history and demonstrate the hands-on creation of maple syrup. Watch how they boil sap in a clay pot and turn it into the maple syrup we love today. Try your hand at stirring boiled sap and make a maple craft, too. 

Free syrup samples will be given to participants. There also will be bottles of maple syrup for sale.   

This demonstration runs from 11 a.m.- 4 p.m.  

Suggested donation: $5 per child $10 per adult.  

This program series is sponsored by