The Maple Sugar Farmer is a 1973 documentary of Sherman Graff. While demonstrating the extraction and distillation of maple sugar water, he tells stories of his old school house, the war, and the local dances where musicians literally sang for their supper. We recently went to a local nature center to watch this movie. Then a guide took us out in the woods and showed us how to tap a maple tree.
Although we have read the chapters of the Little House books where the characters do just that, my 6-year-old seemed to make no connection between the two events and was, as she succinctly put it, "bored."
Maybe we should have read one of these stories on the eve of the outing.
Sugaring Time by Kathryn Lasky
Maple Syrup Season by Ann Purmell
Sugar Snow by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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