Dubya, glad you brought it up, i love glass. any one passing through NY State on their way to wordapalooza might want to stop at Corning, and visit the glass musuem.
CK and SWMBO passed on it (as i recall, he said something to the effect of $10 a piece was a bit too much to pay to see some glassware?!)
but i love it. they have giant (three footers or so) glass springs-- that they compress about 10%!, and then they spring back! an a column of glass, 10 feet long (3 + meters) that is so clear, you can read a newspaper (you stand at one end, the newspaper is 10 feet away!)
they have ancient glass-- imagine, a small glass bottle, 5 thousand years old, and still intact! (this coming from a person who has to replace her drinking glasses ever 5 years or so!)
they have the stuebens glass factory there too, you can watch the glass blowers go into the the honey pot of molten glass and lead, and before your eyes, form a crystal sculpture!
(CK, you were wrong to miss it, IMHO!)
