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Dorset youths build backyard sugar rigs in maple rush
In Dorset Vermont, at least 20 children operate improvised sugar rigs after school, using salvaged stoves, pipes, and sheds to boil sap into syrup. Families share profits in cooperatives while roads churn with mud and fuel gathered from local woods. Some boys approach professional quality with hydrometers and filters as they prepare for a spring run and a return to fishing.
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Dorset
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Erdman
Cully
Richard
Calvin
Harold Beebe