Tuesday, March 16, 2021

Adirondack Experience serves up food-themed programs

This spring, Adirondack Experience museum in Blue Mountain Lake is offering a variety of virtual, food-themed programs:

Maple Sugaring, Adirondack Style
MARCH 24  | 7:00pm – 8:00pm

It’s Maple Sugaring Time in the Adirondacks! Join Ivy Gocker, Library Director of the Adirondack Experience, and Matt Thomas, an independent maple syrup historian, as they talk about the history and material culture of maple sugaring in the Adirondack Region: the process, how it was done in the past, and the story of the Horse Shoe Forestry Company near Tupper Lake, which was once the largest syrup production operation in the world.
To register, please click on this zoom registration link. You will receive a confirmation with program link after signing up.
Sponsored by the Adirondack Experience and Albany Public Library

Food, Glorious Food, Adirondack Style! 
MARCH 31 | 7:00pm – 8:00pm

Food, Glorious Food, Adirondack Style! Get a glimpse of the menus from Adirondack resort hotels and great camps during their heyday in the 1800s.  How did the food served up to the wealthy differ from food and recipes popular among average Adirondack residents?  Find out from Bethany Nyborg, George Mason University graduate student and former Adirondack Experience intern. Bethany will prepare a recipe from this time period to show attendees.
To register, please click on this zoom registration link. You will receive a confirmation with program link after signing up.
Sponsored by the Adirondack Experience and Albany Public Library
ADKX – TRY THIS AT HOME PROGRAMS

Making Butter
April 15 | 5:30pm

Butter is yummy on toast, popcorn, corn on the cob, and mashed potatoes! Is it also delicious baked into cookies and cakes. Learn how people made butter themselves at home long ago, and the tools they needed. Join us to learn how to make your own butter with simple tools and ingredients–all you need is a container with a tight fitting lid and some heavy cream.
To register, please click on this zoom registration link. You will receive a confirmation with program link after signing up.

Balsam Traditions
April 22 | 5:30pm

Sweet smelling balsam fir is the superstar conifer of the Adirondack wilderness. Used in souvenir pillows, garlands, and as a calming medicine, it has been an essential natural resource to visitors and residents alike for years. Join us on Earth Day to learn the history of this celebrated evergreen and how to tell it apart from the other “pine” trees in the forest.
To register, please click on this zoom registration link. You will receive a confirmation with program link after signing up.

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