Connecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program collections, 2015.196.46.1, Connecticut Historical S…

Flyer: 18th Annual Hebron Maple Festival

Date2008

MediumPaper

ClassificationsInformation Artifacts

Credit LineConnecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program collections

DescriptionFlyer for the 18th Annual Hebron Maple Festival, 2008.

Object number2015.196.46.1

CopyrightIn Copyright

NotesSubject Note: Since 1990, the Hebron Maple Festival has taken place annually in March. Highlights include guided visits to several sugar houses where sap is being boiled to produce maple syrup, open houses presented by local artists’ studios and cultural and agricultural organizations, plus local food sales. (Source: https://www.hebronmaplefest.info/)

In 2008, CCHAP produced a cultural heritage bus tour in collaboration with manchester Community College, that included a visit to the Hebron Maple Festival. On March 8, 2008, a tour focusing on French Canadian/Franco-American traditions in Connecticut visited sites and events in Hebron and East Hartford. The tour traveled to the 18th Annual Hebron Maple Festival, visiting several working sugar houses as well as other maple-oriented activities happening throughout the town. Tour stops included Pierce’s sugar house on Route 66, Hope Valley Sugar House on Hope Valley Road, booths and vendors throughout downtown Hebron, Country Carpenters on Gilead St., and the Wenzel Sugar House on East St. The tour group then traveled to the East Hartford French Social Circle Hall for a late afternoon French soirée with traditional French music provided by the dynamic fiddler Daniel Boucher and friends, and included a supper of typical French dishes such as tourtiere, and sugar on snow and a presentation by the French Canadian Genealogical Society of Connecticut.

Additional audio, video, and/or photographic materials exist in the archive relating to this event.

Cataloging Note: This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services MA-245929-OMS-20.

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