Page Farm and Home Museum Offers Children’s Program for Maine Maple Sunday March 26
Contact: Patty Henner, 581-4100; George Manlove, 581-3756
ORONO – The UMaine Page Farm and Home Museum will sponsor a children’s program on maple sugaring Sunday, March 26, from 1-3 p.m. on the Orono campus.
Events start at 1 p.m. with a video, “The Maple Sugaring Story.”
At 1:30 three groups of children (grouped by grade levels, kindergarten through 6) will carry out a learning activity, play games and hear stories about one of Maine’s oldest springtime traditions. At 2:30 p.m., participants will drive to the nearby University of Maine maple sugaring operation, where they’ll have a guided, walking tour of the sugar bush, where the maple sugaring story begins, then will tour the sugarhouse.
Children can sample fresh sweet syrup straight from the evaporator. Poured over ice cream, it is a maple sugar sundae on Maine Maple Sunday, says Museum Director Patricia Henner.
Maine is said to be the nation’s second largest maple syrup producing state.
A $4 per child reimbursement is requested to cover materials used in the exercises. Space is limited and advance registration is requested by calling her Page Farm and Home Museum at (207) 581-4100.
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