Maple Sugar Farmer

Date1972

Can DescriptionsCommercial production. Description in 1988 film catalog: Sherman Graff has been making maple sugar all his life. He prefers to use handmade tools and buckets and an old kettle to gather and cook the sap. As he goes about his work, he reminisces about his life in Illinois in the early twentieth century: his mischievous schoolboy pranks, the country dances, the warmth between family and neighbors and the simplicity of life.