MAPLE SYRUP HISTORY AT porter county museum downtown valparaiso indiana e1738771597903

Living History: Maple Syrup Production by the Porter County Museum

Living History: Maple Syrup Production by the Porter County Museum

When

02/22/2025    
10:00 am - 2:00 pm

Where

Porter County Museum
20 Indiana Ave., Valparaiso, IN, 46383

Event Type

Join us on Saturday, February 22, between 10a and 2p when Ian Baker and Thomas Wojcinski will demonstrate maple sugar production as it would have been done centuries ago.

Collecting maple sap to produce syrup was done by Native Americans long before Europeans arrived, and maple sugar was the primary sweetener in North America until supplanted by cane sugar in the nineteenth century.
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Come learn how the sap was collected, processed, and distributed in the days when Indiana was still part of New France.

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Sue Baxter

Susie Young Baxter, CEO, has published PanoramaNOW Magazine for 31 years. Her hobbies are Camping, Boating, Hiking, Nature, Gardening and Outdoor Activities. She is an Artist, Graphic Designer, an Avid Seamstress, Dabbles in Homemade Crafts and Landscaping. Since her Father was a Health Teacher, she also likes homeopathic Health Solutions. Since blogging started over 10 years ago, PanoramaNow has been added to Newsbreak - a national news affiliate.