A group at Charles Beedes’ sugar camp. Pictured are: Bob Estes, May Sanders, Alton Torrance, Edith Crawford, May Ledwith, and Roy Hanmer. They hold sap buckets and loaf pans of maple sugar Circa 1910. Keene Valley, NY. Courtesy of the Keene Valley Library Archives.
Jim Stone splitting wood. Circa 1930. Keene Valley, NY. Courtesy of the Keene Valley Library Archives.
A man and a woman at a sugar camp. Circa 1900. Keene Valley, NY. Donated by Paul Tyron. Courtesy of the Keene Valley Library Archives.
A lumbering team with horses on a corduroy road. Circa 1900-1920. Keene Valley, NY. Courtesy of the Keene Valley Library Archives.
An unidentified maple sugar camp – possibly the Sanders Camp. Early 1900s. Keene Valley, NY. Donated by Zaidee Trumbull. Courtesy of the Keene Valley Library Archives.
Alan Beede splitting logs. Circa 1970. Keene Valley, NY. Courtesy of the Keene Valley Library Archives.
Soldiers digging a trench on Noonmark during the forest fire of 1913. Two men carry cross cut saws. Keene Valley, NY. Courtesy of the Keene Valley Library Archives.
A group in front of the sugar house at the Beede sugar camp using neck yokes to carry wooden gathering pails. Left to right: Walter Proctor, Ed Phelps, Alan Beede, Jake Beede, Charles Beede, and Russ Beede. April 1907. Keene Valley, NY. Courtesy of the Keene Valley Library Archives.
Boiling sap at Jim Hayes’ sugar camp. Some of the people identified are Orin Holt, Roger Hathaway, and Lena Washbond. May 1904. Keene Valley, NY. Courtesy of the Keene Valley Library Archives.
Man uses backpack-mounted drill to tap a maple tree. A spout with a hook will be inserted into the hole, and the sap bucket will hang from the hook. A flexible metal lid will cover the bucket to protect sap from rain and ebris. Photograph by James Fynmore. 1965. Boonville, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack […]
