A recent story featured in the National Council for the Social Studies Smart Brief newsletter is near and dear to northerly rural areas like mine.
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A vacuum tube pulls sap from a maple tree in Canaan, Vt. (Bloomberg/Getty Images)
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Dozens of students from area high schools participated in May in activities learning how to tap maple trees, troubleshoot problems with tubing systems and grade syrup as part of a maple career day through the University of Vermont and Shelburne Farms. The training comes as Vermont's maple industry seeks to cultivate the next generation of workers as tapping technology evolves amid a warming climate has shifted the calendar for the season.
Full Story: The Guardian (London) (7/2)
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There are many resources in the Library of Congress collections that would connect to this article, and the lively hands-on activities for students thinking of maple surgaring at the Future Farmers of America convention.
[Native Americans collecting sap and cooking maple syrup in pots, tilling soil into raised humps, and sowing seeds, North America] 1774. https://www.loc.gov/item/90705836/
As a side note, I'm intrigued by the message that came up in my search, but that was not visible at the page I reached when I clicked through to an interview collected at the American Folklife Center: "The Center asks that researchers approach the materials in this collection with respect for the culture and sensibilities of the people whose ..." I wonder if it is, or was, standard on all interviews collected. Does anyone know?
Feb 1, 1996 — The Center asks that researchers approach the materials in this collection with respect for the culture and sensibilities of the people whose ...
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Alison--thanks for this great post. I was just working on an early draft lesson that uses the "Seasonal Round" in Vermont, so this topic is timely for me. Feel free to email me if you want to see this draft... it is being reviewed by teachers this month, so I don't feel ready to share widely quite yet. :-) But it brings images (most of them featuring rural Vermont) into conversation with oral histories held by the Vermont Folklife Center. I'm tagging 
Andy Kolovos
from Vermont Folklife here...
BUT, to your question about the use of materials and researchers' ethical responsibilities. I don't think that this language is standard, but I know this researcher well (Mary Hufford) and feel like her work to center the people who are being documented through folklife research is best practice that we should all pay attention to. The fact that you have highlighted it makes me want to call this out in some of the student work we are developing. While we always require consent when students engage their own documentation or ethnographic research projects, this statement for item use highlights the agency of the people who are featured. I really love that...
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