For over 30 years, MSHS has offered this popular, family-friendly community event. The 2025 Maple Festival will feature an outdoor maple sugaring demonstration, maple vendors, talks on the history of maple sugaring, music, and of course, home-made lunch selections and maple desserts.

At the 2025 Maple Festival on March 16, local sugarmaker Ryan Mahar and historians David Wright and Jon Mathewson will give a presentation on maple sugaring history and current practice, complemented with a large display of maple sugaring items from the Historical Society collection. The event will also feature a demonstration of early maple sugarmaking in a cast iron kettle over an open fire outside.