The sugar season : a year in the life of maple syrup, and one family's quest for the sweetest harvest /
From the award-winning author of A Unit of Water, A Unit of Time, a year in the life of one New England family as they struggle to preserve an ancient, lucrative, and threatened agricultural art - the sweetest harvest, maple syrup.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Da Capo Press,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The Extent of the Shock Is Equivalent to the Rate of the Flow; 2. The Public Still Thinks We're Doing It in the Mythic Way; 3. Earliest Boil Ever; 4. Straight At It and All Out; 5. The First Full-Time Sugarmaker; 6. A Gallon Every 22 Seconds; 7. A Sugarhouse Full of Sound and Everybody Coming Around; 8. Short, Sweet, and of High Quality; 9. Here for the History; 10. The Sugar Machine; 11. You Need a Mountain; 12. Why Be Competitors When You Can Be Cooperators?; 13. The Forecast; 14. Aren't You Afraid, Mr. Bureau?
- 15. The Sugar Camps of St. Aurelie; 16. The Route of the Sugarmakers; 17. Seasons of Change; 18. Summer in March; 19. Sugar on Snow; 20. Most of Maine Is Downstairs; Epilogue; Postscript; Acknowledgments