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PHOTOS: Vermont Maple Festival draws a crowd at St. Albans
St. Albans – The annual Vermont Maple Competition drew crowds with a variety of festivities this weekend. Held yearly at St.Albans, the occasion started at midday on Friday and wrapped up with a parade and leisure on the Essential Road stage on Sunday.
The fifty fifth Vermont Maple Competition is a celebration of Vermont’s first agricultural crop of the 12 months: maple syrup. This 12 months’s theme was “Faucet into Vermont Maple.”
Though not the full-fledged occasion it was as a result of pandemic, the 2022 pageant introduced again lots of the public favorites together with the forty third annual sap run, sugarhouse excursions, the retailers’ window contest, stay leisure, and naturally, the maple syrup and maple cooking contests.
The youth expertise present was livestreamed as a substitute of being stay, and a canine present was added to the lineup this 12 months.
Maple creemees, maple sugar frosted doughnuts, maple cotton sweet had been among the many objects distributors served up on the meals court docket, and a maple syrup tasting on the Sugarhouse within the Park saved issues candy.
The parade started at 11 a.m. on Sunday with floats, bands, costumed characters and a household present on the Essential Road stage.
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