Corning NY & Corning Glass Works Museum

We are still in beautiful hills around Corning, New York. We toured the Corning Glass Works in Corning, NY yesterday. The museum is absolutely huge with thousands of items of historical glass, some as old as 3500 years. The collection is astonishing, and in the end was overwhelming. I didn’t even try to capture a photo record of the historical pieces, and only took photos of things that had the WOW factor for me. The photos below are of objects all done with just glass, no paint or stains. The plates that look like cameos are in fact raised glass, not artificially colored. I don’t know how they did it. There was a large section of the museum dedicated to the different colors that were predominant in history, especially reds and greens.

There is a series of pictures below that are of an all glass chess set. The chess pieces are made in the form of Roman Catholic vs Jewish figures. They are all different and the set is amusing to look at, as it is made in the form of caricatures, not meant to be realistic. However, the plaque under it said that each figure is wearing accurate and appropriate dress for the rank of each figure. The factory also had a very large sales shop where you could spend as much for artistic pieces as you wanted to. Sandy got some very nice Christmas tree ornaments that were hand made in glass.

After we wore ourselves out there, we took a trolley downtown to the artist district and saw a lot more glass for sale in the windows. Then we got some ice cream in a historical ice cream shop, went home, and made dinner (stew and fresh bread) in Dutch ovens. At 4:00 in the afternoon, it was 72 degrees outside and breezy. The weather forecast for the next few days here shows a heat wave is coming, with highs in the low 80’s and lows in the mid 50’s. I guess we’ll just have to suck it up and bear it! ;^) Today, I am going to play golf in a State Park nearby. I am waiting for it to warm up a little and for some dew to dry off a little.

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