Today we bring you a mid-Project Period update. Cold nights and mild afternoons are favorable for maple sap runs, and we're gathering and boiling. The firewood under the evaporater needs to be placed up front, under the syrup pans, with soft woods laid under hardwoods to promote the hot burn.
The result is a room better suited to teaching than photography.
Across the street from the sugar house, trumpets announce the approach of Duncan, King of the Scots.
Bill Wightman demonstrates just how he wants Macbeth to act in this short skit.
On the upper balcony of the same theater, the Kenpo/martial arts project is learning simple point sparring.
Ross Young (right) demonstrates how the inclination to back away from a kick can be dangerous; you want to move in, with a flexed knee as a defense that can shatter the leg of an aggressor.
Later, as temps climb through the 40s, we move outside and become familiar with bow staffs honed in the woodshop this morning.
In Carr House, the Foodies (cooking) project is enjoying cheese fondue prior to a turkey dinner.
Over at Eagle Pond, dog lovers are introduced to trained bloodhounds.
