Coggeshall Farm, 2015: Cindy Elder portraying scene of New England in the late 1790s
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From a series of images culled by Borchers for a slideshow of her work. Camera caption: "Bristol, RI. Sunday, Feb. 22, 2015. Cindy Elder, executive director of Coggeshall Farm Museum, explains the use of maple sugar to make molasses and other sweet products for New Englanders in the late 1790's. At left are Bernadette Bergen and her sons Peter, 6 and Stephen, 4, from Portsmouth. A program at Bristol's Coggeshall Farm Museum, where New England farmers tapped and harvested maple sap to produce maple syrup and sugar in the late 1790s."
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