Waumbek
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I was 'shoeing off-trail on the side of Kinsman today through a maple sugar bush, and I got to wondering whether the cold high temperatures this month have delayed sugaring and whether the delay is just a delay or diminishes the quantity or quality of the sap run. I don't have many sugar maples (or reds) but one of these years I want to tap a few trees just to try it. I like the idea that maple sugar used to be considered "free" sugar in the 19th c., as opposed to cane sugar produced by slave labor. That's not to say that many New Englanders didn't prefer the taste of "unfree" sugar.