From East Aurora to Corning

I took this nice picture of Corning by night on the way home from Glassfest tonight. It's a cute little town that calls itself the Crystal City. Good name.
Friday was a slow day, and so is the internet connection in this hotel. Don’t know if I’ll finish this before it craps out again.

Didn’t do too much at Roycroft this morning, we had a really good lecture about the connection of all the various arts and crafts movements around the world. Our second lecture was about where Roycroft is headed. It seems promising.

Nice lunch – warm turkey salad with figs and then Ellen took us back to the airport where we picked up our rental car, a Mazda 3, which I finally learned to drive a hundred miles later when we arrived in Corning.
The best thing about today is that when we arrived in Corning, it turns out that they are having something called Glassfest, which is a three-day festival this weekend with street fair, glass, bonuses for buying beads, live music, etc. Tonight they had an after dark show of works using light – so most of them were neon.
The internet connection sucks in this hotel. I'm sitting in the freezing lobby finishing this and then will start the one for tomorrow (which it already is, but I have lots of stuff to show in Saturday's post about the museum. Mostly pictures.