Maine excursions

This morning Jim, Mary and Ellen were working with a couple of guests in making ID name buttons for a Contradance Festival next weekend. They were using button-making machine, which is sort of cool.

Then this afternoon, we all went to Hope, ME to (1)an art show Jim had mounted in January at the Hope Library, which is still up, so we got to see it, and (2)a sugar house called "Sparky's" which was part of state-wide "Maine Maple Days," where you could see the sugar-making operation and get some free samples. On the way back we stopped at the Rockland Coop and I got Marshmallow Root and Protein Powder.

Sugar-making in the 1950s in Dummerston

The old-fashioned buckets

Sugar-making in Maine in 2019

The sap tank

Maple goodies for sale

The poster for Jim's show

One of our favorites

Another favorite

The Tolles Cottage on Cape Porpoise, ME