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LIVERMORE — Maine Maple Sunday will be celebrated at the Norlands living history museum March 26 with a pancake breakfast, maple sugaring and other activities.

Visitors will be served hot pancakes and sausage drizzled in Norlands’ own maple syrup in the historic farmer’s cottage and original 1867 Washburn family kitchen. The charge is $5 to $7. No reservations are necessary.

At the sap house there will be boiling demonstrations and an opportunity to see a working team of oxen. Visitors can help tap trees and collect sap.

The activities, which run from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., also include the one-room schoolhouse where a schoolmarm will share the basics reading, writing and ‘rithmetic; and snowshoeing along the tranquil fields and wooded carriage trails on 445 acres at the site.

The gift shop offers Norlands maple syrup and other maple treats.

The Washburn-Norlands Living History Center is at 290 Norlands Road.

FMI: call 207-897-4366, email [email protected], or visit www.norlands.org.

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