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Rona
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Sat Jan 23rd, 2010 08:45 pm |
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Next weekend, Fizz (husband) is going on a mountaineering expedition to a place called Upper Jay, in the Adirondacks, and I'm tagging along. We're driving up, stopping overnight at Corning on the way. Once we get there, he'll be off ruffty tufftying up the mountains and I'll be left in our little chalet.
This is not me letting everyone know my social diary! I'm taking patchwork and a sketch pad, but does anyone know if there's any stained glass to see within a reasonable distance? Given it's a 10-hour drive to get there, I'm not wild to do much travelling but a bit would be OK. Also, given that it's a 6 million acre park, I may be whistling in the wind to be looking for glass - but you never know.
Thanks!
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Krueger
Director
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Posted: Sat Jan 23rd, 2010 11:57 pm |
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Rona, hopefully you will have time to stop in Corning, either coming or going...or vice versa.....the Glass Museum for one, and there are several interesting churches in the immediate downtown area, and there used to be a couple very good bookstores in the downtown also. As for stained glass in the Adirondacks, I just looked and Jacques Duval lives there, but immediately on Lake Champlain, and there doesn't seem to be any direct roads from Upper Jay....so....another suggestion would be Lake Placid immediate area. http://www.steustace.org/default.htm Click on Inside Church....for what it is worth. Have fun!!
Barbara in Michigan
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Rona
Director
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Sun Jan 24th, 2010 07:47 pm |
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Thanks for the reply, Barbara, and for looking up some possibilities! Might be interesting to have a look at St Eustace - I find the idea of moving it board by board fascinating, and also was interested that the sister church was St Hubert - presumably there are a lot of deer around there!
Re Corning, yes, the idea behind stopping there on the way out was so that I got my glass fix before being plunged in to the wilderness...
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Rona
Director
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Posted: Thu Feb 4th, 2010 07:16 pm |
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Well, the Corning Museum was a blast - spent loads of time and a small fortune there on books and a fabby piece of blown glass.
Didn't find much stained glass of note in the Adirondacks - Barbara's church was not stimulating (but thanks for taking the trouble to find it, B!); many of the churches had no sg at all and the domestic stuff I saw for sale was very ho-hum; visited a church with Mayer (is there anywhere in the world without Mayer?) and a new studio to me, Von Gerichten. The window said "Munich, New York, Columbus" - apparently brothers from Offenbach (some 400km from Munich) who set up a workshop in Ohio. Not sure where New York comes in. Not exciting glass though.
No, I think if I want sg, I need to go back to New York New York, and stick with fabulous scenery and fun pastimes in Upper Jay.
Last edited on Thu Feb 4th, 2010 07:18 pm by Rona
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Rebecca
Administrator
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Thu Feb 4th, 2010 08:48 pm |
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Judy, my son, my daughter-in-law, and I went to Corning last summer. It really was a lot of fun. I was sure I would win one of the items made during the glassblowing demonstrations! But somehow they gave my pretty away to someone else.
Rebecca
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Rona
Director
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Posted: Thu Feb 4th, 2010 09:08 pm |
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You should have demanded a recount!
We watched the "smashing glass" demo - the "prize" was given to the kid who did the smashing, so we couldn't complain. We bought a piece by Josh Simpson - http://www.joshsimpson.com/index.html - which is just fabulous.
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