2024 Lunenburg Maple Festival 

                                              Saturday, March 23rd

       The 2024 Maple Festival was held at the Lunenburg School this year

The Lunenburg Primary School, is located at 49 Bobbin Mill Road behind the Lunenburg Common. It is conveniently off Route 2 and adjacent to the VAST snowmobile trail.
                             It was a wonderful day of everything maple!

           Winners of the contests, door prizes, and raffles can
                   be found HERE ~ CONGRATULATIONS to all
                                and THANK YOU for joining us!                      
                                                                     

Good things to eat:
Top of the Common Committee's Pancake Breakfast (8-10:30),
Maple Cotton Candy (all day),
Pieces of and Whole Pies (for sale after contest judging),
Old Home Day Committee's Homemade Soup & Bread Luncheon (12:00-2:00)
Homemade items at the Bake Sale

Things to learn:
Student Expressions of Maple through their boiling demonstration, exhibits and conversations based on their maple sugaring unit studies,
Lunenburg's rich Maple Sugaring Heritage through interactive and photographic displays, antique sugaring equipment, conversations,
Tree Tapping with the students with an Extension Center backyard-sugaring resource to take home,

Things to admire and enjoy:
Student maple-theme Poster Contest Entries (always creative!),
Quilt Square Contest Entries (works of art!),
Pie Contest Entries, (pleasing to the eye and palate)

Things to take home:
Sale of Maple-theme and Lunenburg items,
Free Door Prizes,
Raffles (well, not everyone takes a raffle item or door prize home, but do remember to sign up for the door prize and purchase your tickets for the items you'd like!)

THE  thing to experience:
Local sugarmakers open their sugarhouses to visitors - an opportunity to experience firsthand, with all your senses, a part of the Lunenburg maple sugaring heritage!
Open Sugarhouses Around town, from 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Each sugarmaker enjoys sharing their history, experiences, and details of their operation (and maybe a traditional treat).

A map is available at the greeting table - it shows the open sugarhouses, directions from the school, and an area map.

For more specific up-to-date details visit the Top of the Common Committee website