Scott Dunn walks down to where he collects sap in the woods behind his Buxton home on Tuesday.
Terry Deering collects firewood outside of Scott Dunn’s sugar shack while John Cenate, right, and Mike Hoyt, center, help make syrup inside on Tuesday.
Scott Dunn, far right, Mike Hoyt, second from right, and Terry Deering, left, greet their friend John Cenate as he arrive to help make maple syrup in Dunn’s sugar shack behind his Buxton home on Tuesday. The three men are all firefighters like Dunn and they all met years ago working for the Gorham Fire Department. Every year they help Dunn with the boiling and help out over Maine Maple Weekend. “We’re like a family,” Dunn said.
Terry Deering loads firewood into the burner while helping his friend Scott Dunn, left, make maple syrup on Tuesday.
Brooke Dunn runs around her dad Scott Dunn’s sugar shack on Tuesday.
Scott Dunn checks the sugar content of sap as it pumps into a tank in his sugar shack behind his home in Buxton on Tuesday. Dunn is the president of the Maine Maple Producers Association and the owner of Dunn Family Maple which he started in 2014.
Scott Dunn stays with his two daughters, Bridget, 10, and Brooke, 6, while the last of the sap boils in the sugar shack behind their Buxton home on Tuesday.
Scott Dunn pours freshly made maple syrup into a collection tank in his sugar shack behind his home on Tuesday.
Freshly made syrup pours out into a collection bucket inside Scott Dunn’s sugar shack on Tuesday.
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