Maple fest continues Sunday

BOARDMAN

The 33rd annual Maple Syrup Festival at Boardman Park, which continues from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. today, Saturday and next Sunday, is a refreshing departure from the usual festival.

Instead of booths offering greasy food and cheap baubles, the festival offers demonstrations of maple syrup-making, costumed Civil War re-enactors eager to discuss history, a local art group displaying its wares and a group of woodcarvers looking to recruit new members.

While all this is going on, the Boardman Rotary Club is serving a pancake breakfast in the Lariccia Family Community Center.

A continual demonstration of maple syrup-making goes on in a log cabin at the park. Gabe Manginelli, a park employee, describes the process and hands out information on the craft.

Containers hang on trees throughout the park to collect the sap, which is boiled down to make syrup. Manginelli said additional information is available from the Ohio State Cooperative Extension on the Web.

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