Maple Sugaring Season Officially Begins in New York State
NEW YORK, February 23, 2009 –New York State (
www.iloveny.com) is offering a sweet and sticky treat for visitors in March as more than 110 maple producers across the State join together to offer the 14th Annual Maple Weekend (
www.mapleweekend.com). New York is the second largest producer of maple syrup in the United States — third largest worldwide — and maple producers will host free open houses to demonstrate how maple syrup and other related products are made in this region.
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Event To Benefit The Northeast Parent & Child Society
SCHENECTADY, NY — Get ready to relive the golden age of hep cats, cool crooners and magical melodies with “The Rat Pack – Live At The Sands,” playing at Proctors Theater - and italyMONDO! has paired an exclusive charitable pre-show wine tasting the nights of March 12-14 to accompany the award-winning production. Read more »
Festivals and sugar shacks across the state gear up for NYS Maple Weekends in MarchADIRONDACK REGION, N.Y. Feb. 23, 2009 - Your cabin fever peaked in January – it’s February and spring is palpable in the Adirondacks. (Or maybe it’s just an early thaw). Either way, early spring means temperatures that soar above 32 degrees during the day and dip below freezing at night - which means its sugar maple tree-tapping time.Late winter to early spring marks the beginning of maple syrup season in New York – and the Adirondack region just happens to produce some of the finest, purest maple syrup in the United States. Up here, we take the sweet stuff seriously.
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OSWEGO COUNTY - The Tug Hill region is world-famous for its extreme snowfall, and folks in Oswego County have a variety of ways to celebrate the extended winter season. Enjoy the competition of a sno-cross event, hot chili contest and cross-country ski race as well as a merry St. Patrick’s Day celebration! Read more »
Oswego, NY – If you only have one guess as to who has discovered the Great Lakes’ oldest confirmed shipwreck, the only fully intact wrecked British warship, a rare dagger-board schooner dating to the early 1800s and more than 200 historic shipwrecks in Lake Champlain, the Finger Lakes, and the Mississippi and Ohio River, you better guess Jim Kennard. The well-known underwater explorer and engineer, who has built his own sonar equipment, will keynote the 2009 Great Lakes Underwater event March 7 at SUNY Oswego. Read more »
HOWES CAVE, N.Y. – Internationally recognized cave photographer Gary C. Berdeaux will visit Howe Caverns on Feb. 24 to photograph the underground treasures that have been seen by millions of visitors to the Northeast’s great cave. Read more »
On Saturday Evening, March 7 at 6 p.m., come to the Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall, to discover the wonders of our universe. Do you have a passion for the sky? Join Jim Burnell and Joe Stefaniak and others of the Orange County Astronomical Association for an evening of star gazing and planetary discovery with telescopes. Association members will share their knowledge and excitement for this exciting hobby – it’s out of this world! Read more »
