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CAPE COD GLASS CLUB PLANS TRIP TO NEW BEDFORD GLASS MUSEUM MARCH 6

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SANDWICH, MASS. — On Tuesday, March 6, the Cape Cod Glass Club will travel to New Bedford, Mass., to view the collections of glass and related historical objects in the care of Kirk J. Nelson, director of the New Bedford Museum of Glass. Club members and invited guests will meet at the Sandwich Glass Museum parking lot at 8:45 am to carpool at 9 am.

The New Bedford Museum of Glass was founded in 1993 as The Glass Art Center of Bradford, Mass. The museum has opened a development office at 46 North Water Street, where selections from the collections are housed. The collections documents 3,000 years of glassmaking, with emphasis on historical glass from the East and Midwest, and glass produced in the city of New Bedford, home of the New Bedford Glass Company, the Mount Washington Glass Company and the Smith Brothers decorating shop. Most important to the study of glass history is the museum’s vast collection of papers that descended in the family of Frederick S. Shirley, agent of the Mount Washington Glass Company.

Lunch will follow at nearby Candleworks restaurant. The group will proceed to City Hall, on the corner of William and Pleasant Streets, where Nelson was invited by the city to mount a special exhibition, “Our Nation’s Heritage In Glass.” Much of this glass was donated by the late researcher and collector Mrs Warren P. Tingley.

On April 3, the club will meet at the Sandwich Glass Museum to hear a lecture by paperweight artist Rick Ayotte of Ayotte Glass Studio in Nashua, N.H.

For information, contact membership chair Dorothy Schatz at 508-428-2141, or program chair Betsy Hewlett at 508-362-6875.