Maple sugarin' in Vermont
Subtitle: a sweet history
By: Betty Ann Lockhart ; photos and editorial assistance by Don Lockhart.
Contributors: Lockhart, Don.
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781596294912
Subjects: Maple sugar -- Vermont -- History; Maple sugar industry -- Vermont -- History
Genres: Vermont
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The native peoples of the dawnland-the Abenakis; title: Sugarin' in the wilderness: sweetness for the early settlers; title: "T.J." and Vermont maple; title: Flowing toward the birth of the Vermont maple industry; title: Report of the first U.S. commissioner of agriculture: reflecting on the 1700s and peering into the eighteen hundreds; title: "Eat sugar not made by slaves!"; title: Heading through the 1800s; title: The auspicious 1890s; title: Vermont maple sugarmakers and the Pure Food and Drug Act; title: And 1896; title: Big business: the making of a maple magnate-George C. Cary-and afterwards; title: How do the maple trees tick? solvers of the mysteries!; title: Teaching and learning-for sugarmakers and consumers; title: Stories from the heart of maple country; title: The move to gain more money from the maple crop; title: Tools of the trade; title: Old-time maple "receipts".