Join us for the Grand Opening of our newest exhibit, Glass Factory Mountain: Making Bottles and Making History. This exhibit was made possible by a grant from The Alfred Z. Solomon Charitable Trust, and designed by the Paul Orselli Workshop, with graphic design by Kim Wagner Nolan, KWN Designs, and fabrication by DCM Fabrication. The... Read more »

Since the beginning of our republic, U.S. Presidents have been popular subjects of commemoratives, souvenirs, and tchotchkes. This exhibit in our front window uses bottles, glass plates, historic flasks, and commemoratives from the 1960s and 1970s to trace presidents from George Washington to James E. Carter (a one-time member of our organization).This exhibit was created... Read more »

Whether called soda, pop, tonic, or even coke, for most of the 18th and 19th centuries, towns, cities and regions had their own popular local soft drinks. Most were created by and sold through small bottling houses based on local flavors and regional character. During the 1950s-1970s, most of these bottlers were purchased by larger... Read more »

Spatter glass is a variegated handblown or mold-blown art glass, also known as end-of-day, mottled overlay glass, and splashed glass. The spatter glass technique has been used for millennia, dating back to the Romans. Spatter glass is produced by rolling hot blown glass over small pieces or chips of colored glass. Lesser quality and reproduction pieces... Read more »