“One of the maple syrup taps actually used by the Wrights,” JoAnn Wright-Wintenburg owner of this precious heirloom.
In the picture below affixed to the buckets hanging from sugar maple trees are the names of James’ and Harriet Elizabeth’s children. The significance is that after the death of James most of the children moved as a whole to the N.W. and North Central region of Missouri where one of their income sources was harvesting maple sap and rendering it to syrup and maple cakes. This is continued today by some of our remaining family members.
Wright Family Sweet Spot Revealed newspaper article regarding the farming of maple syrup. Click Wright Family News Article [324995] to open and view.
From Linn’s 1976 History of Mercer County Missouri, page 56
The Wright Family Maple Syrup Camp
Click on the title above to view a video of Virgil Wright Sr., Bob and Mary Fair, Howard Casteel and others out in the Princeton, Missouri countryside gathering sap and then making it into syrup. The original 8mm reel to reel film has been passed down from Virgil and Hazel Wright to Nina Wright-Williams. JoAnn Wright-Wintenburg then had it converted to DVD format.
Patsy Fair has identified the following people in the video as:
- Mary Fair wearing the hoodie.
- Bob Fair pulls the tail gate up on the truck.
- Virgil Wright Sr. is smoking a cigarette.
- Howard Casteel stirs the vat.
Provided by JoAnn Wright-Wintenburg from Linn’s History of Mercer County, page 56.
Boiling it Down by Kathy Wright-Wainer
Click the title above to open this descriptive short story of Harold P. Wright’s experiences relating to the harvesting and processing of maple sap with his father (Eldon Wright) and grandfather (John Harvey Wright) along with their wives and his Aunt Mamie (John’s daughter).
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