Yesterday we visited the Corning Museum of Glass. They have glass artifacts dating back 4000 years as well as priceless pieces of glass art. My favorites were the live glass blowing and forming exhibits and the technological glass exhibits, including containers (beer bottles), flat glass and optical glass. They had some hands-on classes, and Dorcas made a $1.00 glass bead for $15.00.
Today we visited Hammondsport at the south end of Keuka Lake. We spent most of the day touring the Glenn H. Curtiss Museum. Glenn Curtiss was a motorcycling and aviation pioneer and a contemporary and rival of the Wright Brothers. He set a number of speed and aviation records and is considered to be the "Father of Naval Aviation". This weekend they hosted the annual Seaplane Homecoming, and there were a dozen or more seaplanes at the lake, including the Curtiss seaplane reproduction "America", intending to make it's maiden flight. The original "America" was built with the intention of being the first aircraft to cross the Atlantic, but that effort was stymied by the outbreak of WWI. The reproduced "America" did not fly today, because it's engines could not produce enough power for take-off. It did taxi on the lake for the spectators.
This evening we learned to play "31", a card game I had never played before. Suffice it to say that these old folks (the average age of motorhomers exceeds ours by about 15 years) took advantage of the youngsters.
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