National Maple Syrup Run IV, Sat., March 10, 2012

[toadgolf]

Once again this year we are driving to the National Maple Syrup Festival in Medora, Indiana on SATURDAY, March 10. We will meet at Sofia’s House of Pancakes in Greenwood 9:30 AM on the 10th. Sofia’s is at the NE corner of State Road 135 and Main Street in Greenwood. Sofia’s is only open for breakfast and lunch and is reputed to have very good food. Plan to arrive early enough to eat breakfast. We plan to leave at 9:30 AM and take the back roads to Medora, IN. and the Festival where we will spend 2 to 3 hours. We park in Medora and take shuttle busses to the Festival site.

Shuttle Bracelets & Admission

The festival hours are 8:30 am to 5:00 pm.
The buses will run their route from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.

Admission into Medora Community School is FREE! Live Bluegrass music all day!

If you would like to attend the 2012 NMSF Outdoor Program or visit Burton Maplewood Farm, you will need to purchase a shuttle bracelet.

Shuttle Bracelet Information:

Children 4 yrs old and under: Free!
Youth (5 to 15 yrs old): $6.00
Adults (16 - 64 yrs old): $10.00
Seniors (65+): $8.00

Donate (1) canned good for a $2.00 discount off of (1) shuttle bracelet. All donated food will be given to area food pantries.

We plan to leave Medora about 2:30 PM and drive to the Chateau de Pique Winery near Seymour. After that we will make our way back to I-65 and travel back to Indianapolis. I anticipate we should be back in Greenwood by 5:00 PM. I am including internet links to the Festival and Chateau de Pique Winery. Let me know if I have left anything out. We do need to have people RSVP so we can get a head count.

Festival www.nationalmaplesyrupfestival.com/

Chateau de Pique Winery www.chateaudepique.com/

There are some nice twisty roads. We had nearly 20 cars last year and hope to have more this time.

This is not an official MINICCI Event and is open to Top Downers and other cars who would like to attend. TIM BURTON, the owner of Maplewood Farms has requested that we attend again this year.

Larry Taylor

[mini-T]

Linda & I will attend. It was great fun last year.
Tracy

[Debbie S]

Count me in. Debbie

[Captain Dale & SuziQ]

We had a good time last year as well and will be in attendance unless the weather is really nasty.

[dallas]

Dallas will be there

[miniPS]

I would like to do this run, and breakfast as well. Let me know what time for breakfast.
Patti

[Davisio]

Will somebody find out and post up for me when they tapped their trees?

They claim to have the first tapping of the season, but, for example, I'm farther north and have already pulled my taps. We tapped in mid-January and ran 5 weeks until the weather started to turn warm.
And, I know of some producers that tapped around New Year's this season...

So, I'm curious to know when they started. They always seem to run later than us.

Cheers!

[trbasil]

My Dad's going to pull his this weekend, going to go over and help him spray the lines out.

[toadgolf]

Welcome to all who plan to attend the Maple Syrup Festival tomorrow. It looks like we are going to have a super day. I plan to be at Sophia's about 8:30 AM for breakfast. We will leave there at 9:30 AM. We have two cars coming to Sophia's from the Roving Roadsters club in Cincinnati and a third meeting us in Medora. We also have a car from Nashville, TN. I also believe Debbie S is coming from Louisville.

Don't forget to bring canned food for the food drive. It will save you $2.00 on the admission cost.

I have made a change in the itinerary. Instead of going to the winery in Seymour, we have decided to drive to Columbus to visit Zarahakos Ice Cream Parlor. It is a refurbished Soda Fountain and Museum. They have good sandwiches and great ice cream. I think everyone will enjoy it.

Bring you radios. We will be using channnel 7.1.

See you tomorrow.

[Captain Dale & SuziQ]

The change to Zarahako's Ice Cream Parlor is fantastic. For anyone that has not been there, you are in for a treat.

[Debbie S]

I will be there and my grandddaughter is coming along also, but we will not be there for breakfast. We will be there no later than 9:30. See you then. Debbie

[toadgolf]

I checked with Tim Burton, the owner of Maplewood Farm, about tapping. He said that normally the start about the end of January and finish up in early March. Due to the mild winter this year the started in mid to late December and finished in February. There is still some sap running but it is not good. If you would like to contact him for more information his contact information is below.

Burton's Maplewood Farm
Tim Burton, Producer
8121 W County Rd 75 S
Medora, IN 47260

812-525-2663 Mobile
[e-mail]
www.BurtonsMaplewoodfarm.com

[Davisio]

Thanks for that.
It confirms exactly what we experienced this year.