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Article: Keeping time.
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- American Scholar
- Article date:
- March 22, 2004
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A sharp bit cuts a clean hole. Each year as winter slides toward spring, I head into my family's woods in northern Wisconsin with the best drill bits I can find. I am the fourth generation of my father's family to tap our sugar bush, a hillside grove of two hundred sugar maples whose warped limbs interlace high above the forest floor. Together with a few soaring pines, these maples form an enclave partially spared by the loggers who began clearing this area late in the nineteenth century. Sugar maples grow throughout our woods, but only in the sugar bush are there old, shaggy-barked trees--trees that might already have been growing here in 1837 when the Ojibwe, who call ...
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