The Martha Canfield Library will hold a talk on The Many Meanings of Maple on Sunday, March 3 at 2:00pm in the library's meeting room. Maple is enormously important to Vermont's economy, ecology, and heritage. Champlain College professor Michael Lange will discuss sugaring ethnographically, based on over five years of research among sugarmakers all over the state, to learn from them what sugaring really means to Vermont. Rather than discussing the practical aspects of sugaring, such as how to tap a tree or how an evaporator works, his talk focuses on how and why maple has become so important to Vermont's identity, and how and why it helps us shape who we are as Vermonters.
Dr. Michael Lange is a professor of anthropology and folklore at Champlain College in Burlington. He has authored several academic works on cultural identity.
This presentation is free and open to the public. Call the Library at 802-375-6153 or visit our website, marthacanfieldlibrary.org, for more information.