Located just a few miles north of the Pennsylvania border is one of the most impressive museums in the region: the Corning Museum of Glass. Founded in 1951 to celebrate the Corning Glass Works' (now ...

The story of the Corning glass company actually begins in Brooklyn, steps away from Brooklyn Bridge Park at the site what is now Adam Yauch Park. There, the Brooklyn Flint Glass Company had its start ...

When Amory Houghton became chief executive of Corning Glass Works in 1964, the company founded by his great-great grandfather was thriving. Known to the general public for Pyrex measuring cups and ...

Summoned five years ago to the office of William C. Decker, then president ofCorning Glass Works, Research Director William H. Armistead listened wide-eyedto a short but characteristically pithy ...

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Rick Price always knew he wanted to be an editor, he just never knew his life's work would focus on glass instead of news. But after a start in journalism, Price had an opportunity to become editor at ...

When Jack Benjamin arrived in Corning in 1973 to head up local economic development agency Three Rivers Development Corp., he got his first impression of board chairman James Houghton. It was an ...