This is a photo of my uncle Lucien's sugarhouse as it was in 2011. It was the epitome of 'high tech' in 1954. That was when my father and older brothers plus another uncle or two built the new addition with all the windows. This sugarhouse doesn't have an evaporation cupola like most other establishments. The high tech is the metal pipe rising from behind the building. That was the exhaust pipe for a new and more efficient sap evaporation system. Also, there is no standard brick and mortar chimney because the heat for boiling came from LP gas. The raw sap came to the holding tank via the first in the county sap line system. All this modernization cost me my after-school winter job to a plastic tube. For providing some of the lumber and labor for the new addition my father got 10% of the first year's syrup production. And that's where the ten 1-gallon cans of Lucien's best grade A Vermont Maple goodness came from... Bob