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Please consider joining us for events the week of March 28th. Have a
great recipe for the Maple Cook Off?
Maple Madness: A Week of
Celebration at the UVM
Libraries
The University
of Vermont Libraries
are
celebrating the creation of a new Maple Syrup Research Website (http://library.uvm.edu/maple)
with a
week of programs, exhibits, and food, beginning March 28th,
2010. The website is a comprehensive subject
guide
in the field of maple syrup, including historical publications and
photographs
related to maple syrup research at the University of Vermont.
Cook Maple, Win Prizes
A Maple Cook-Off will be held at UVM’s Davis Center
on March 28th, from 4 to 6PM, featuring a buffet of maple
delicacies,
music by acoustic trio The Growlers, maple displays, children’s
activities, and
prizes of gift certificates to local eateries (awarded by food critics,
activists, and producers). The event is
free and open to the public. For more
information or to register: http://maplecookoff.eventbrite.com
A Party in the Woods
John Elder, a Professor at Middlebury College, will present
“A Party in the Woods: Sugaring, Community, and Celebration Under a
Changing
Sky,” on maple sugaring as a traditional rural lifeway that both
illuminates
contemporary challenges like climate change and exemplifies the need
for
celebration within environmental thinking today. The
talk will take place in Bailey/Howe
Library’s Special Collections on March 31st, at 5:30 PM, and
is
co-sponsored by Special Collections and the UVM Libraries.
Elder’s talk will follow a 4:30 PM reception to celebrate
the launch of the Maple Syrup Research Website in the Bailey/Howe
Library
lobby.
Maple Exhibits
Maple exhibits in the Bailey/Howe Library include images of
sugaring-off parties, historic recipes, the story of Helen Nearing, and
much,
much more. The exhibits are located in
the Bailey/Howe Library Lobby and in Special Collections. They will be
on
display through June 2010.
More Information
For more information, please call 802-656-9980 or e-mail [log in to unmask]
See the Bailey/Howe Library on a campus map: http://www.uvm.edu/map/?Page=MAP&Building=51
Information on visitor parking at UVM: http://www.uvm.edu/tps/parking/?Page=visitors.html
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