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168:"In the maple orchards long ago, after the maple sap had been evaporated till it would spin a hair, then a call was sent out to all the young people to come to the waxin', they would pour the thick syrup on dishes of snow for each to eat, they would eat their fill and go home to dream sweet dreams,..."
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It shows the artist's impression of maple sugaring traditions, with a cauldron of sap boiling on an open fire in the middle. On the left a woman pours the maple wax into fresh snow for children who are watching. On the right buckets of sap are poured into a large barrel for the next load to boil,
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while behind that a man with an ox-sled pulls logs presumably to feed the fire. The painting is notable for being the first full color lithograph of a
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The next year in 1947, this painting was also selected to become a
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Grandma Moses, American primitive - forty paintings with comments by
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during the 2020 pandemic where a video was published online to museum members at home unable to come in person.
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