Senior Naturalist Margaret Ardwin has been tapping maple trees with her family for a long time.  She and Naturalist Steve Living showed visitors different types of taps and explained how maple trees grow and why they produce sweet sap.  Everyone went outside and learned how to identify the best place to tap a sugar maple tree.  The warm days and cold nights were ideal for making the sap run, and the tree's branches dripped sap at broken ends.  A hole was drilled in the tree and a metal tap was inserted, with a bucket below to catch the sap.  Everyone came inside to taste raw sap and cooked-down syrup.  Margaret read a maple sugaring story, and the children enjoyed making maple crafts.