Maine Maple Sunday at the Conway Homestead and Museum
This 1820 Maple Sugar Shack at the Conway Homestead and Museum on the Camden-Rockport line was from my family’s Howe Homestead on Howe Hill in Camden. It was last owned by my great, great, great Uncle Walter Howe until it was donated to the Camden Historical Society in 1991. Walter and his brother Oscar Howe both remained single and worked on the farmstead their entire lives. My great, great grandmother Alice Howe Hunt was the only sibling in the family to marry. She did return to the Howe Hill Homestead in her elderly years to live with her brother Walter for the remainder of her life.
My Uncle Oscar working the Oxen on the Howe Homestead. Oscar died relatively young of a blood infection because he refused to see a doctor after cutting himself on a fence.
My Uncle Walter who lived into his late nineties, the last Howe to own our family farm. Both Oscar and Walter made Maine Maple Syrup in the Sugar House pictured above.
Pictures of the Maple Sugar House being moved from Howe Hill on the front of the barn.
A demonstration today at the blacksmith shop at the Conway Homestead and Museum.
An outdoor fire and demonstration for Maine Maple Sunday at the Conway Homestead and Museum.
We are on a mission to find the coolest places in Maine.
Love Maine!
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