Maple Syrup Day & Wright Brothers Day

December 17 is National Maple Syrup Day.

Maple leaf on sideway

"The Northeastern U.S Indigenous Peoples are noted for inventing maple syrup. They created the method of tapping trees, know as Maple Tapping, along with the process of boiling the sap down into syrup. 

This technique is traditionally done by inserting a small spigot into the trunk of a maple tree and collecting the extract in a container. 

Learn more here: Maple Syrup Day.

December 17 is also Wright Brother's Day:

The USAF Thunderbirds put on show in the summer of 2017 at Selfridge A. N. G. B. Video taken from our front porch; those jets were LOUD!

"Wright Brothers Day is a United States national observation...and commemorates the first successful flights in a heavier-than-air, mechanically propelled airplane, the Wright Flyer, that were made by Orville and Wilbur Wright on December 17, 1903, near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina."

Learn more here: Wright Brothers Day.

Near Mount Clemens, Michigan, where Eastside Cats reside, Selfridge Air National Guard Base plays a big role in our area.

Named for 1st Lieutenant Thomas E. Selfridge, the first person to be killed in a crash of a powered aircraft.  Also injured was Orville Wright, which is why I posted about our base to celebrate today.