[Magdalen] Scranton

[ROGER STOKES]

Wonderful for your granddaughter.  I have never tried blowing glass but I have seen experts doing it several times.  They are very skilled in their craft and I admire them for it.
Roger
 


     On Monday, 22 June 2015, 1:43, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:
   

 A couple of weeks ago I took my 11-year-old granddaughter to a glassblowing studio where you can blow your own ornament. They also have demonstrations every day on the hour. 
We watched the young man make a stemmed goblet. Then my granddaughter got to blow a lovely 3" purple globe with a crackled effect. Her part was just the final step in the process, the actual blowing as he coached her, but she was thrilled. And I loved what he said to her, "Now your breath is in there forever!"

> On Jun 21, 2015, at 1:04 PM, "Jim Guthrie" <jguthrie at pipeline.com> wrote:
> 
> From: Lynn Ronkainen
> 
>> they have an AMAZING glass museum at  Corning (a huge and world famous glass manufacturing campus) that contains glass dating back to prehistory and as up to date as glass that is in space
> 
> Yes indeed! We visited a local attraction -- Pearce glass blowing in Queechee Vermont this week - a small mom and pop operation compared to Corning -- and it's interesting to see 20-somethings making things from Molten glass, with with tools and glass blowing -- but wearing shorts and sandals and sneakers and T-Shirts, vs the safety coveralls and eye-goggles of Corning.
> 
> Cheers,
> Jim Guthrie
> //killing time at the hotel in Rutland until the van takes us over to Amtrak for the ride home//
>