“Take a ten minute walk back in the woods off of Lenox Road in Lawtons in the early spring and you’ll find Nobert Gabel Jr., known as “Bub” by his family and friends, hard at work feeding an ever hungry fire in a small sugarhouse billowing with warm sweet smelling steam. For Gabel, making maple syrup has been a family affair, starting with his father Norbert Gabel Sr. who made syrup in addition to dairy farming on Kaiser Road.

— Face of a Farmer, Erie County Fair