[Magdalen] Scranton

[Jay Weigel]

I had a friend at UW-Madison who was a glass artist/glass blower. I was
fascinated by his art then as now. I lost track of him some years ago but I
believe he is in the U.P. of Michigan, probably retired from teaching at
one of the universities up there.

On Sunday, June 21, 2015, ROGER STOKES <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com>
wrote:

> 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
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>      On Monday, 22 June 2015, 1:43, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
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>  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!"
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> > On Jun 21, 2015, at 1:04 PM, "Jim Guthrie" <jguthrie at pipeline.com
> <javascript:;>> 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//
> >
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