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CAPE COD GLASS CLUB HELPS STAFF MUSEUM’S GLASS SHOW SEPT 14­–15

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SANDWICH, MASS. — On Friday, September 14, Cape Cod Glass Club members will enter the Skylight Room of the Corpus Christi Church to help transform it into a dazzling glass showroom.

The 20th annual Cape Cod Glass Show and Sale, sponsored by the Sandwich Glass Museum, opens to the public at this new location Saturday, September 15. Friday, however, is the day that more than 40 antique and contemporary glass dealers cover tables with their treasures. Club members volunteer as porters for dealers who need help in transporting their ware. Others assist show manager Douglas Reed with last-minute details.

Under the supervision of club volunteer coordinator Karen Hurwitz, by the end of the day all will be ready for buyers waiting in the ticket line on Saturday morning.

During the show, customers will see club personnel staffing the ticket table, “booth sitting” for dealers who need a break, and keeping a watchful eye by walking the aisles. Members educated in identifying glass will maintain an identification table to help dealers and ticket holders attribute their objects to a particular glass factory, area of the United States, or foreign country. The Cape Cod Glass Club is grateful for assistance provided by members of the Westchester Glass Club, which sponsors its own annual glass show in April.

As an added event, the Cape Cod Glass Club will conduct a raffle of an owl paperweight given to the club by artist Rick Ayotte of Ayotte Glass Studio in Nashua, N.H. Ayotte’s glass art is known worldwide. It resides in museums such as the Bergstrom-Mahler Museum in Neenah, Wis., and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

Raffle tickets can be purchased at the club’s membership table during show hours at the price of $5 for one and $10 for three. The winning ticket will be drawn Sunday, September 16, at 3 pm.

The Cape Cod Glass Club, founded in the year 2000, is a not-for-profit chapter of the National American Glass Club. It is dedicated to the study and appreciation of glass regardless of the type or period, with emphasis on American glass.

The Cape Cod chapter meets monthly from October to December and from March to June. Activities include formal lectures, informal study sessions, and visits to museums and working glassmakers.

The first meeting of the 2007-2008 season will be on October 2 at Sturgis Library in Barnstable, Mass. Mitchell Bistany of Sudbury, Mass., will speak on Chinese glass snuff bottles, their history and value as an art form.

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