SLIDE SHOW: The Spirit of Maple Sugaring by Featured Photographer Jeffrey Newcomer
SLIDE SHOW: The Spirit of Maple Sugaring by Featured Photographer Jeffrey Newcomer
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Sap collection begins at Stonewall Farm.
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Harold Bigelow checks the brew.
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Foam is skimmed off the top of the boiling brew.
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The collected sap is unloaded outside the sugar house.
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View from the sugar house at Stonewall Farm
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Sampling the syrup at Stonewall Farm
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Buckets are hung to collect sap from the maple trees.
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Sap buckets await emptying.
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Horses wait outside of the sugar house at Stonewall Farm.
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Grades of maple syrup are held up to the light.
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Children watch the sugaring process from a safe distance.
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Welcome to Stonewall Farm.
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The Firebox in the sugar house at Stonewall Farm.
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Step back in time to experience the traditional method of collecting sap to make maple sugar.
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Harold Bigelow inside the sugar house at Stonewall Farm.
In this slide show, photographer Jeffrey Newcomer captures the charm of the annual Sap Gathering Contest at Stonewall Farm in Keene, New Hampshire: an event that embraces the traditional method of collecting sap to make maple sugar.
No stranger to documenting life in New England, Jeff has served as a member, webmaster, and photographer for the Conservation Commission in his rural community of Chesterfield New Hampshire for over 30 years. He has used his photography to support the commission’s effort to preserve the town’s open and wild spaces. He enjoys wandering throughout all of New England, but in recent years has focused his photography on the Monadnock region of New Hampshire and southern Vermont, as well as the New England coast. His work can be seen at a number of galleries in the region, in publications and on his web site at: www.partridgebrookreflections. He also regularly blogs about photography in New England at: http://jeffnewcomerphotography.blogspot.com
Great shots Jeff, tells a great story.
Exceptional…..thank you.
Inside to outside-great view of fire & ice!!!
Congratulations Jeffrey, excellent work
wonderful and interesting. My 4 yr old granddaughter was told about this in preschool and this was a great visual for her.
Very nice pictures! I used to live in Jaffrey and we had the buckets on our trees every year!