2007: WAYNE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
Visitors at the Dorflinger Glass Museum will see the diorama, showing the various stages of making plate glass by the cylinder method, employed at the early factories here. Dorflinger Board Member James Asselstine had been to Corning Glass Museum and viewed their diorama. Being too fragile to be loaned to Dorflinger for the anniversary celebration, Asselstine and Bette Davis provided a donation to commission artist Jennifer Llewellyn of Nanticoke, to make one from scratch.
Mrs. Llewellyn, who formerly lived in Hawley, said she is an avid museum and history fan, and has made architectural models, miniature soldiers and model railroad accessories, but this was her first diorama. She stated it took about 200 hours. Dorflinger's Executive Director, Joan Gillner was aware of Mrs. Llewellyn's skills, and contacted her in mid-February. High attention to detail was employed, from the masks the men wore when blowing glass, to a humorous touch of a bat in the wooden trusses.
2007: WAYNE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
Visitors at the Dorflinger Glass Museum will see the diorama, showing the various stages of making plate glass by the cylinder method, employed at the early factories here. Dorflinger Board Member James Asselstine had been to Corning Glass Museum and viewed their diorama. Being too fragile to be loaned to Dorflinger for the anniversary celebration, Asselstine and Bette Davis provided a donation to commission artist Jennifer Llewellyn of Nanticoke, to make one from scratch.
Mrs. Llewellyn, who formerly lived in Hawley, said she is an avid museum and history fan, and has made architectural models, miniature soldiers and model railroad accessories, but this was her first diorama. She stated it took about 200 hours. Dorflinger's Executive Director, Joan Gillner was aware of Mrs. Llewellyn's skills, and contacted her in mid-February. High attention to detail was employed, from the masks the men wore when blowing glass, to a humorous touch of a bat in the wooden trusses.
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