Farmer Harold Eastman pours hot maple syrup from his orchard onto cold snow for the Vermont treat of sugar-on-snow. Photograph by John Titchen, Three Lions/Getty Images In fact, the state hosts an ...

ONEKAMA — Common signs of spring are birds singing, grass poking through the snow and — at Onekama Consolidated Schools — second graders hauling buckets of sap. Teacher Ben Mauntler's class wrapped up ...