On Wednesday, September 9th I will be making an online virtual presentation to discuss the research and story from my new book A Sugarbush Like None Other: Adirondack Maple Syrup and the Horse Shoe Forestry Company. The presentation will be hosted by the Goff-Nelson Memorial Library in Tupper Lake, New York.
Here is additional information on the event and how to attend:
Wednesday, September 9, 2020 at 7 PM – 8 PM EDT
Online Event Hosted by Goff-Nelson Memorial Library
Email goffnelson@gmail.com to request the Zoom invite.
A sugarbush of 50,000 taps, a network of pipelines to carry sap from the woods to collection points, with sap boiled on colossal evaporators in a series of syrup plants sounds like a description of a modern industrial maple syrup operation. For Abbot Augustus Low’s Horse Shoe Forestry Company 120 years ago, it was a novel attempt at making maple syrup in the Adirondack wilderness on a scale never before experienced. From 1896 to 1908, A.A. Low and his army of workers carved an industrial landscape out of the forest around Horseshoe Lake, complete with railroads, electrification, mills, dams, a private camp, and the centerpiece maple syrup operation. In time the landscape of A.A. Low’s private estate changed hands and uses, but as told in Matthew Thomas’ new the book, A Sugarbush Like None Other, the remnants of the story of the Horse Shoe Forestry Company can still be found on the land.
Please join author Matthew Thomas on September 9th at 7 pm for a virtual presentation of his research and field investigations that went into documenting the history and remains of the Horse Shoe Forestry Company.