1st Ulster Militia demonstrator Charlie Redner sits by the hearth to keep warm. (Photos by Phyllis McCabe)
Many families stopped by the Senate House grounds in Kingston on Saturday, April 2 and participated in the annual Sugaring Off: 18th-Century Style. There were demonstrations of boiling maple sap down to syrup, hewing a log into a trough,18th-century medicines, sewing and hearthside cooking. Local militia units also demonstrated 18th-century camp life. Musician Mark Rust of Woodstock provided colonial-style music on his banjo, violin, guitar and spoons.
Senate House volunteer Dan Foster demonstrates the hewing of a log into a trough, with Lucy Anderson, age 5 of Rosendale, and her mother, Toni Salluzzi, looking on.Ripley Campbell, age 8 of Rosendale, carries a yoke with buckets that was used to carry milk and waterChildren gathered around Mark Rust to hear him play his violin.L-R: Hank Yost, Rick Vander Heuvel and Charlie Redner of the Ulster Militia load and fire their muskets.Don Terpening, The Colonial: Doctor, explains the various 18th-century medical practices.
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