Type of Work: Forest Industries

Maple tapping in the woods

August Beers with maple sap tubes in Keene

Maple tapper August Beers snowshoes among tubing lines in the sugarbush of South Meadow Farm Maple Sugarworks. 2022. Keene. Photo by Amy Feiereisel. Check out our story on the operations of this commercial sugarbush here.

Maple tappers on snowshoes in Keene

Maple tapper August Beers (right) and colleague in the sugarbush of South Meadow Farm Maple Sugarworks. 2022. Keene. Photo by Amy Feiereisel. Check out our story on the operations of this commercial sugarbush here.

Suiting up to go maple tapping

Suiting up for maple tapping in Keene

Workers suit up to go out tapping at South Meadow Farm Maple Sugarworks. 2o22. Keene. Photo by Amy Feiereisel. Check out our story on the operations of this commercial sugarbush here.

Logger Evan Nahor checking his equipment

Evan Nahor poses with large logging equipment. Circa 2020. Long Lake, NY. Photo courtesy of Evan Nahor. Read more about Nahor’s logging career here: https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/43160/20210224/north-country-at-work-an-adirondack-logger-keeps-working-in-the-woods

Logger Evan Nahor in Long Lake

Adirondack logger Evan Nahor poses next to a bulldozer. Circa 2020. Long Lake, NY. Photo courtesy of Evan Nahor. Read more about Nahor’s logging career here: https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/43160/20210224/north-country-at-work-an-adirondack-logger-keeps-working-in-the-woods

Cutting Firewood in Aubrey Corners in Quebec

Cutting Firewood in Aubrey Corners in Quebec

Cutting Firewood, in the area of Dundee or Aubrey Corners, Quebec. Early 1900s. No ID of the workers. Photo taken by Laura Currie, who was a seamstress in Huntingdon, P.Q. for most of her life. Donated by James Bullard.

Warren Allen checking sap tubing in Croghan

Warren Allen checking sap tubing in Croghan

Warren Allen checking sap tubing in the woods of the Allen sugarbush.  Croghan, NY. Circa 1990. Donated by Warren and Eleanor Allen. The Allens moved from New York City to the Croghan area in 1975, to make maple syrup. They sold their own syrup, and their neighbors’ syrup, in New York City for years.