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.
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