Folks interested in the history of the Horse Shoe Forestry Company maple sugaring operation may want to join me for a virtual online presentation on the research and story of my new book A Sugarbush Like None Other: Adirondack Maple Syrup and the Horse Shoe Forestry Company.

Date: Wednesday, September 9th
Time: 7:00 PM EDT
Sponsor:Goff-Nelson Memorial Library in Tupper Lake, NY
Email the Goff_nelson library at goffnelson@gmail.com to receive the Zoom invite

Here's a short blurb about the presentation and story of the Horse Shoe Forestry Company -

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.

Matt Thomas
www.maplesyruphistory.com
www.sugarbushlikenoneother.com