Museum to host pancake breakfast and spring festival

Cuddebackville —The Volunteers of the Neversink Valley Area Museum will hold their annual Maple Syrup Pancake Breakfast on Sunday, April 22, beginning at 8 a.m. at the D & H Canal Park Visitors’ Center. The museum’s volunteers will be scrambling eggs, cooking sausages, pouring coffee, tea and juice and flipping flapjacks until noon. The pancakes (all you can eat) will be served with locally harvested pure maple syrup. The volunteers are reprising last year’s Spring Festival. Plants and maple syrup will be available for sale, thanks to a donation from Wessel’s Farm. “Doc” Frank Simpson, one of the museum’s founders, has collected sap and will demonstrate how the thin, clear liquid is made into dark, rich syrup. A glossary of maple terms, maple puzzles and old-fashioned maple recipes will be available. Bargain hunters can browse at the flea market and the museum will offer the first Canal Boat Rides of the season, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., weather permitting. The museum will be open for extended hours, so visitors can tour the exhibit about the D & H Canal or stop by the gift shop to pick up a hand-carved walking stick or kite and take advantage of the D & H Canal Park. Breakfast is $5 for adults and $2.75 for children. The museum is at 26 Hoag Road, off Route 209, in Cuddebackville, For information, call 754-8870 or visit www.neversinkmuseum.org.