Disaster Response
President Judy Groff did a tag team as the Toastmaster with intense, "disastrous" transitions as her husband Don reinforced her theme with six solid table topics. These covered the gamut from California wildfires to school shootings to natural gas explosions to the elections. Hoyt as joke master gave an innovative way to have all the family there for Thanksgiving. (You had to be there.) Margaret Davis gave "The ABC's of Maple Syrup." Being from Vermont, she explained the content of presentations she and her husband give in the area to boost sales of her authentic maple syrup products from Vermont. She exposed some of the imposter products that masquerade as Maple. She demonstrated how up to two taps are put on the trees. Margaret said the Sugar Maple may live and "work" for 300-400 years. A tree of just 30-40 years was too young to tap. She also showed some of the intensity or robust range in different bottles captured in the three mon...