For a couple of the conferences, we boarded buses and went to Wheaton Arts which is about an hour away from Salem College. We were entertained by some of the apprentices at Wheaton with a glass show that consisted of breaking glass in every way imaginable. It was set to music and was so much fun. They actually did pour molten glass into an aquarium and kept pouring until it exploded. Molten glass was poured over dry ice, into a glass globe filled with water, hung from ladders, etc. and broken. The Director, Hank Adams, got up into a forklift and was lifted all the way up to the ceiling with a ladle of molten glass and then proceeded to pour it thru mesh - that created some of the longest stringers you have ever seen. At the end of the show, when all the glass had been broken, we got a concert played on a glass zylophone the students had made.
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