Uneventful drive to Corning today. Weather was good and there was quite a bit of road work but we were well supplied with podcasts and audiobooks. I’m knitting a sweater for Dolores so that keeps the worst of my back seat driver behavior under control. We stopped in Cobleskill for lunch at a restaurant that at least wasn’t fast food or pizza; the Grapevine Farm. This decor sample says it all. We were probably the youngest people they’ve seen in ages!
Arrived at the Corning Radisson late afternooon and headed off for a walk around the Gaffer District/Market Street Historical area that starts right outside of the hotel. Gateway arch to demarcate the nice bits and you can get a glimpse here of the well maintained buildings that house a collection of small shops, restaurants, bakeries, etc.
Had a nice stroll through the downtown. There is a large square in the center of the business area with a covered stage, a large clock and lots of seating. It then connects to a park with a bike path and a bridge over the river, It’s right next to Corning Glass’ World Headquarters and the Corning Glass Museum is a few blocks away on the other side of the river,
We ended our downtown tour with an excellent small plate selection at The Cellar restaurant with a nice Riesling from a Finger Lakes winery that we visited on a prior adventure. Love the option to seal up your wine bottle and take it with you.
Wednesday morning we stopped at the Corning Museum of Glass. Great museum with History of Glass, Glass Innovation, and live demonstration exhibits. They also have a wonderful glass art galleries and that is where we spent most of our visit. There are many beautiful works from artisits around the world including some that were prototyped at Corning
Here’s one for all of you old hippies
And a little something for the binky connoisseurs in the family
This work was fascinating. Tom spent quite a bit of time trying to capture it with his new phone
This was about 2 dozen panes of glass where the artist who had found the “perfect” rock had taken cross-sections of the rock and then copied them onto paper and then etched them into the panes of glass, so that as you moved around the structure you could see the 3-dimensional shape of the rock. This 360-degree image gives a little bit of the idea of what it looked like.
