THE SUGAR BUSH STORY
On April
28, 29, and 30, 2006, the people of the
Never
did we dream back in 1958 when we made about 100 gallons of maple syrup and
served a few hundred meals at our first one-day festival that we would grow to
processing 12,000 meals at a three-day festival. If it had not been for our many visitors from
all locations in
The
original idea for having the festival was to earn enough money to finance an
eight-week summer recreation program for children in our school district. As we have grown, we have been able to fund a
ten-week summer program. We were also
able to build and operate a community swimming pool and purchase land to
develop a community park. We continue to
work on our park project.
ALL
WORK ON THE SYRUP, CANDY, AND ALL OTHER AREAS OF THE FESTIVAL IS VOLUNTEER and
almost everyone participates! Children
work with adults carrying sap buckets during the sap run in late February and
March. Many retirees are our most
faithful sausage makers. Would you believe that we make two-and-one-half tons of sausage one
week before the festival? Then we
all work together again during festival weekend.
As
usual there will be the famous and delicious PANCAKE, MAPLE SYRUP, AND SAUSAGE
MEALS served at the