title: The Sugar Season: A Year in the Life of Maple Syrup, and One Familys Quest for the Sweetest Harvest
author:  Douglas Whynott 
description: What began as a curious search to uncover the mechanics and marketing of maple syrup turns, in his calm telling, into a case study of how venerable family enterprises deal with an uncertain futureParts of this tale recall John McPhee's fact-laden reports about our earth and those who seek to comprehend its hidden components.<br /><br /><b><i>Winnipeg Free Press</i>, 3/1/14</b><br /><br />There are many flavours in this affectionate look at the maple-syrup industry in the United States, along with a light taste of the Canadian flow<i>The Sugar Season</i> includes nostalgia, family histories, business competition, technological development, the free-market approach of the U.S. (compared to the marketing-board approach of Quebec) and, as a disturbing subtext, environmental concern<i>The Sugar Season</i> does a good job of taking us from the days of tin buckets and wooden spouts to vacuum pumps and tubing, also providing readers with a look to the future[Whynott] makes you pause and appreciate a nibble on a maple leaf sugar candy.<br /><br /><b><i>Saveur</i>, 3/6/14</b><br />A closely observed portrait of a largely unknown worldone that is full of interesting characters who have devoted their lives to transforming an intensely seasonal crop into a global commodityit's a smart, engrossing read that gives this sweet cropone of America's oldest agricultural productsits full due.<br /><br />
zlib_text: **LOVE AT THE FALL FESTIVAL**
  
   **A Sugar Maple Romance By Belle Bailey**
  
   **LOVE AT THE FALL FESTIVAL**
  
   **A SUGAR MAPLE ROMANCE**
  
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  Copyright © 2015 Belle Bailey.
  
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  Rights Reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or
  used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the
  author. This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead,
  is purely coincidental.
  
  This book is dedicated to small towns and their characters.
  
   **Table of Contents**
  
   ** _CHAPTER ONE_**
  
   ** _CHAPTER TWO_**
  
   ** _CHAPTER THREE_**
  
   ** _CHAPTER FOUR_**
  
   ** _CHAPTER FIVE_**
  
   ** _CHAPTER SIX_**
  
   ** _CHAPTER SEVEN_**
  
   ** _CHAPTER EIGHT_**
  
   ** _CHAPTER NINE_**
  
   ** _CHAPTER TEN_**
  
   ** _CHAPTER ELEVEN_**
  
   ** _CHAPTER TWELVE_**
  
   ** _CHAPTER THIRTEEN_**
  
   ** _CHAPTER FOURTEEN_**
  
   ** _CHAPTER FIFTEEN_**
  
   ** _CHAPTER SIXTEEN_**
  
   ** _CHAPTER SEVE