Tapping into Tradition: A Sweet Celebration of the Season
Next “It’s really surprising how much sap is in these buckets. I totally didn’t expect this.” Fourth grade student Henry Macon of Norwalk is peering underneath the silver lid of an aluminum bucket. He and his classmates are participating in the long-standing New Canaan Country School tradition of collecting sap from the tapped maple trees which line the school’s front driveway and dot the landscape of its 75-acre campus. “We’ve had some warmer weather today, so the juices are really flowing,” acknowledges Visual Arts Teacher Chris Lawler with a deep chuckle. Lawler, who is a...
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