The methods and appearance of the syrup making in the sugarhouse are fairly rustic and consistent with what one would see in much of the 20 th century. Hurry Hill also has a working sugarbush and outdoor maple history interpretive walking trail that are open for visitors during the sugaring season. Photo by author.īut Hurry Hill Maple Farm and Museum is much more than a museum, which is open all year round. The sugar house at Hurry Hill Maple Farm and Museum. A significant portion of the story of Miracles on Maple Hill centers on activities in a rural sugarhouse and sugarbush as a family struggles to work together to overcome and deal with the father’s trauma of returning to home life after World War Two. In writing the book, Virginia Sorensen drew from her experiences living in northwest Pennsylvania. Hurry Hill Maple Farm and Museum is home to a great family-friendly maple museum that showcases the history of maple syrup but also tells the tale of the back story of Virginia Sorensen’s 1957 Newberry Award winning children’s book, Miracles on Maple Hill. Cover of Virginia Sorensen’s Newberry Medal winning book, Miracles on Maple Hill. Williams completed this project as part of his Eagle Badge at the sugarbush of the Hurry Hill Maple Farm and Museum near Edinboro, Pennsylvania. With the help of the Boy Scouts from Erie County’s General McLane School District Troop 176 and Legacy Troop 73, Boy Scout J.C. I was excited to recently learn of a great project to excavate, reconstruct, and reuse an open-air stone and earth boiling arch for supporting a flat pan for boiling maple sap.
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