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Maple Rush Sugar House co-owner Sadie Davis hands bottles of syrup to a customer Saturday during Maine Maple Weekend. The Sabattus-based sugar house will be open Sunday rain, shine or snow, but they may have to move all activity into the sugar house if the weather is too severe. (Libby Kamrowski Kenny/Staff Photographer) Purchase this image
Maple Rush Sugar House owner and sugar maker Jordan Davis answers questions from visitors Saturday about the syrup making process during Maine Maple Weekend. Maple Rush Sugar House will be open Sunday — even if it snows. (Libby Kamrowski Kenny/Staff Photographer) Purchase this image
Maple Rush Sugar House owner and sugar maker Jordan Davis demonstrates a draw of syrup from an evaporator’s draw tank Saturday during Maine Maple Weekend at his sugar house in Sabattus. Davis said that Sunday’s snowy forecast is enjoyable for sugar makers, as a late-season snow is referred to as a “sugar snow” because it increases the sugar content in a tree’s sap. (Libby Kamrowski Kenny/Staff Photographer) Purchase this image
Maple Rush Sugar House owner and sugar maker Jordan Davis demonstrates a draw of syrup from an evaporator’s draw tank Saturday during Maine Maple Weekend at his sugar house in Sabattus. Davis said that Sunday’s snowy forecast is enjoyable for sugar makers, as a late-season snow is referred to as a “sugar snow” because it increases the sugar content in a tree’s sap. (Libby Kamrowski Kenny/Staff Photographer) Purchase this image
Maple Rush Sugar House owner and sugar maker Jordan Davis explains the differences in syrup color and composition to visitors asking questions Saturday during Maine Maple Weekend. (Libby Kamrowski Kenny/Staff Photographer) Purchase this image
Participants in Maine Maple Weekend get a close look at a wood fired evaporator Saturday while touring Beaver Hill Plantation’s sugar house in Freedom. (Rich Abrahamson/Staff Photographer)
Steve Bennett of Freedom’s Beaver Hill Plantation enjoys a hot dog Saturday while he passes the wood fired evaporator, left, while participating in Maine Maple Sunday Weekend at the plantation’s sugar house. Three generations of Bennett’s family were on hand to take questions and assist guests at the event.(Rich Abrahamson/Staff Photographer) Purchase this image
Stacy Keating, right, and Alexis Bennett of Freedom’s Beaver Hill Plantation work together Saturday while selling maple syrup during Maine Maple Weekend in Freedom. (Rich Abrahamson/Staff Photographer) Purchase this image
Stacy Keating of Freedom’s Beaver Hill Plantation, right, serves ice cream topped with maple syrup Saturday during Maine Maple Weekend in Freedom. (Rich Abrahamson/Staff Photographer) Purchase this image
Bolduc family members, from left Becky Bolduc, daughter Emilia Bolduc, 12, son Thatcher Bolduc, 9, and husband Jon Bolduc pass the sugar shack as they tour Freedom’s Beaver Hill Plantation Saturday during Maine Maple Weekend in Freedom. The family is from Islesboro. (Rich Abrahamson/Staff Photographer) Purchase this image
A sign on the door of the sugarhouse at Cole Farm in Dayton reads Life is too short for fake maple syrup. (Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer)
Andrew Small loads wood into the firebox of the boiler at 207 Tappers in Arundel during Maine Maple Sunday Weekend on Saturday. (Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer)
Casey Belanger talks about the syrup making process in the sugarhouse at 207 Tappers in Arundel on Saturday, the first day of Maine Maple Sunday Weekend. (Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer)
Valerie Cole, who operates the Cole Farm sugarhouse with her husband Andy, sports maple leaf shaped earrings in the sugarhouse on Saturday during Maine Maple Sunday Weekend.(Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer)
Maple syrup flows into a stainless steel bucket in the sugarhouse at 207 Tappers in Arundel during Maine Maple Sunday Weekend on Saturday. (Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer)
People line up outside of the sugarhouse at 207 Tappers in Arundel on Saturday. (Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer)
Andy Cole, left, explains the sap boiling process to Richard Thibault in the sugarhouse at Cole Farm in Dayton on Saturday. (Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer)
Anthony Bussiere, with a Maine state flag style tattoo, dips fresh donuts in vanilla glaze for a customer Saturday during Maine Maple Weekend. Bussiere jokingly referred to his role at Pep’s Pure Maple Syrup as “head donut engineer.” (Libby Kamrowski Kenny/Staff Photographer) Purchase this image
Pep’s Pure Maple Syrup co-owner and sugar maker Tom Edgecomb loads wood to fuel a fire while making syrup Saturday during Maine Maple Weekend. Edgecomb said he’ll use just about any kind of wood as long as it’s in smaller pieces, with the exception of maple trees which are not used as fuel at his sugar house. Pep’s Pure Maple Syrup will be open Sunday even if it snows, with fresh donuts and syrup made the same day for visitors. (Libby Kamrowski Kenny/Staff Photographer) Purchase this image
Vintage syrup bottles are on display in the retail portion of Pep’s Pure Maple Syrup sugar house Saturday during Maine Maple Weekend. (Libby Kamrowski Kenny/Staff Photographer) Purchase this image
Steam rises from a vent Saturday at the Blais Maple Syrup sugar shack after passing through an evaporator during Maine Maple Weekend. Blais Maple Syrup is located at 44 Ledeview Road in Greene, just off of U.S. Route 202. (Libby Kamrowski Kenny/Staff Photographer) Purchase this image
Addison-Grace Blais, 7, introduces Chedda Bob the cat to Lauren Keches and her toddler Saturday during Maine Maple Weekend at Blais Maple Syrup in Greene. Blais, who was helping to keep track of inventory and give change to customers at the family’s booth, said Chedda Bob was basically the mascot of the weekend. (Libby Kamrowski Kenny/Staff Photographer) Purchase this image
Bottles of syrup line the shelves of the Blais Maple Syrup sugar shack retail area Saturday during Maine Maple Weekend. (Libby Kamrowski Kenny/Staff Photographer) Purchase this image
Addison-Grace Blais, 7, interacts with a customer buying maple kettle corn Saturday during Maine Maple Weekend at Blais Maple Syrup in Greene. Blais is being supervised by dad Shawn Blais who is also a sugar maker, while the younger Blais made change and keeps track of inventory. (Libby Kamrowski Kenny/Staff Photographer) Purchase this image
Candy Blais, co-owner of Blais Maple Syrup, shows her maple leaf earrings while in the sugar house Saturday during Maine Maple Weekend in Greene. Her husband Mario Blais is the head sugar maker at the family-run sugar shack.(Libby Kamrowski Kenny/Staff Photographer) Purchase this image
Lanettra Nail, 3, holds mom Alihsha Nail’s hand while listening to Stacy Farrand walk through the sample flavors of syrup Saturday during Maine Maple Weekend. Farrand, mother-in-law to co-owner Jordan Davis, drew in almost every visitor with free samples and fun explanations. (Libby Kamrowski Kenny/Staff Photographer) Purchase this image

Rich is a career photojournalist and writer who got his start in newspapers in 1987 at the Fort Morgan Times in Colorado. His appreciation for photography and stories began as a kid while watching slide...

Libby Kamrowski Kenny is a staff photographer at the Sun Journal who came aboard in June 2025. She’s been in journalism longer than that though, as her prematurely graying hair can attest, starting as...

Gregory got his start in journalism delivering his hometown newspaper, the Norwich Bulletin, as a teenager, reading the front page articles on dark winter mornings as he passed under streetlights. Greg...

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