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DARYN SLOVER/SUN JOURNAL
Dan Giguere of Lewiston boils maple sap inside his Locomotive Treehouse Sugarhouse on March 21, 2023 in the Danville neighborhood of Auburn. BUY IMAGE |
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Dan Giguere is quite the character.
He decided to build a sugarhouse that resembles a full-size train locomotive in Auburn to keep the history of his property intact. The Rock Maple Mountain Railroad crossed Giguere's property on Davis Mountain in the 1950s and '60s to bring visitors to a former sugarhouse further up the mountain. |
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When Giguere decided to build a new sugarhouse closer to the road, he built it to resemble a locomotive.
Giguere said that he has people from all over the country come to visit his sugarhouse on Maine Maple Sunday Weekend because it is so unique.
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Keith Harris watches a thermometer while pouring maple syrup out of an evaporator into a bucket in the sugarhouse at Harris Farm in Dayton on Friday, March 14, 2025. The farm will be open both days of Maine Maple Weekend. |
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Jordan Davis runs a green lateral line down from a new tree in Sabattus in 2023. Maple Rush Sugar House team color-codes its lines to keep things organized. The maple syrup operation started in 2017 and has picked up many tips and tricks from other maple sugar producers, both in person and on maple sugar forums online. |
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Freshly made taffy is sampled during the Valentine's Day Treat: Maple Snow Taffy at Lake George Regional Park East in Canaan on Feb. 14, 2021. The demonstration was hosted by Skowhegan Outdoors, a program of Main Street Skowhegan.
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BRIANNA SOUKUP/PRESS HERALD
Thomas Bryant, 7, sucks the sap right out of the tap at the Bryant family farm in 2017. Every spring, they tap thousands of trees and make Maine maple syrup in their sugar shack on site.
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Sap drips into a bucket from a newly tapped tree at Giles Family Farm on Feb. 24, 2017 ahead of Maine Maple Sunday. |
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A frost covered maple leaf sits on the Maine State House lawn Nov. 4, 2021 in Augusta. The overnight low temperature in the area dipped below freezing so around dawn there was frost on the ground and steam fog over the Kennebec River.
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Terry Deering of Gorham brings wood into the sugar house as steam rises from the vents as he and Scott Dunn boil sap at Dunn Family Maple in Buxton on March 18, 2021. |
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Lucille Little looks up at samples collected from recent boils at Slattery's Sugarhouse in Minot Saturday morning during Maine Maple Weekend in 2023. She was visiting with her father and siblings. BUY IMAGE |
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