ELIZABETHTOWN, N.Y. – The 2009 Maple Sugar Festival will take place on Saturday, April 25 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Adirondack History Center in Elizabethtown. The day features a pancake breakfast, games and contests.
The Maple Sugar Festival is the first event of the Adirondack History Center’s museum’s season, 1609 – 2009: Celebrating a Landscape of Culture and Ideas, for the Quadricentennial year. The museum revived the Maple Sugar Festival three years ago to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the event.
A pancake breakfast will be served from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The cost is $6 for adults, $5 for seniors and children ages 6-12, and $1 for children under 6. Proceeds benefit the museum’s programs. The Elizabethtown Kiwanis and the Elizabethtown-Lewis Chamber of Commerce will do the cooking and serving.
At 12:30 p.m., there is a special celebration for Our North Country Heritage, the arts-in-education mural project completed by the students of the Elizabethtown-Lewis Central School in partnership with the museum. The school is open for all to see the mural and there will be horse and buggy rides between the museum and school, weather permitting. The mural features the many schoolhouses in the region and students will interview community members at the museum about memories from their school days. Students’ art posters and poems based on the mural will be on display at the museum.
Contests include pancake eating, a beard contest for men, and a maple dessert contest. The beard contest categories recognize the longest, thickest, greyest, whitest, most promising and most distinguished beards. The winner of the maple dessert contest will have their dessert featured at the Deer’s Head inn in Elizabethtown.
Festival activities include a slideshow of images from the museum’s Maple Festival from the past 50 years. Mike Farrell, Northern Maple Specialist and Director from the Uihlein Forest Maple Sugar Field Station in Lake Placid will be available to answer questions and to give a presentation on grading syrup. Maple producers are invited to submit samples of their syrup for a judging contest.
The Adirondack History Center Museum is located at 7590 Court Street in Elizabethtown. For more information contact the museum at 873-6466 or visit http://www.adkhistorycenter.org/cal/maple/maple09.html.
Maple Dessert Contest
The Adirondack History Center Museum is hosting a Maple Dessert Contest at its Maple Sugar Festival on Saturday, April 25. The contest will be judged by a committee of local residents experienced in the preparation and appreciation of fine foods. All desserts are welcome: pastries, cakes, puddings, cookies, pies and more. The only requirement is that real maple syrup, preferably Adirondack syrup, is used in the creation of the dessert. There are three categories of entrants, with a limit of one entry per person. Categories are: child to age 12, youth age 12 – 18, and adult 18 and over.
People should bring their desserts to the Maple Sugar Festival by noon on Saturday, April 25. Entries should be protected and enclosed in a cooler or other secure container. Each entry will be judged by an assigned number. The grand prize winner’s dessert will be featured at the Deer’s Head Inn in Elizabethtown the following week.
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