Imagine you are a passionate collector of glass bells. You venture out to your mailbox one autumn afternoon, gather up your pile of junk mail, flyers, invoices, and magazines and spot a thick, white envelope, return address Corning Museum of … Read more →
This time of year, bird lovers are still enjoying the sight of tiny, brilliantly-colored birds racing by their windows in a blur of beating wings. Have you ever thought about the original feeders developed for these minuscule flyers? Unlike bird … Read more →
When Jesse and Bessie (Becky) Littleton moved to Corning, New York from Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1913, I’m fairly sure they had no idea their names would be tied to a revolution in bakeware that would span the century. Jesse … Read more →
Last week, in a quest for information on German-made Christmas ornaments for a patron, I turned to the J. Stanley Brothers Collection, or JSB as we call it, for the man responsible for building the collection. JSB was one of … Read more →