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Vaseline Glass Collectors, Inc. 25th Annual Convention

CORNING, NY – Vaseline Glass Collectors, Inc. (VGCI) invites membership meeting, play Vaseline Glass Bingo and enjoy other glass
members to attend its 25th Annual Convention in Corning, NY at the related presentations. Friday and Saturday evenings will include a speaker
DoubleTree by Hilton Corning Downtown Hotel. on a glass topic and dinner.
The convention begins Wednesday, October 16th, with an optional Attendees are encouraged to display their Vaseline Glass. There will be
motor coach trip to the Erich H. Martin Vaseline Glass Collection. four $100 prizes in four different categories. Start planning your
Thursday will feature an optional motor coach trip to three exceptional display now! A silent auction of Vaseline Glass will conclude on Saturday
Tiffany stained glass window and mosaic installa- afternoon. Most importantly, convention attendees are encouraged to
tions in area churches. An evening welcome participate in room-to-room shopping. Not only is this an incredible way
reception and cocktail hour will take place to add to your Vaseline Glass collection, but it is a great way to make new
following the return to the hotel. Friday will friends or reunite with longtime friends. Please join in and see first-hand
include admission to the world-renowned why VGCI is the friendliest glass club around!
Corning Museum of Glass. There will be ample For further VGCI convention or membership information, please visit
time provided to visit areas of interest in our website www.vaselineglass.org or contact us at vaselineglasscollec
Corning (antique shopping), attend the annual torsinc@gmail.com.

New Orleans Museum of Art Glass Exhibit on Prohibition

NEW ORLEANS, LA – The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) Visitors to the exhibition can expect to see Prohibition-era cocktail
opened a new decorative arts exhibition that looks at Prohibition in the shakers; bottles from the only brewery in New Orleans to survive
American South. Rebellious Spirits: Prohibition and Resistance in the prohibition; glasses showing changes in historical drinking culture;
South explores the unique methods in which communities in the U.S., Jugtown Liquor vessels, popular with Louisian moonshiners; propaganda
particularly in New Orleans, dealt with the passage of the 18th both for and in defiance of the temperance movement; historical cocktail
Amendment to the Constitution. recipes; paper prescriptions used by
Through objects such as cocktail shakers, drinking glasses, liquor doctors of the time period to legal-
containers, and medicine bottles, Rebellious Spirits explores the radical ly order alcohol for patients; an
changes this era instilled within America’s relationship to alcohol, and audio sample of Francis Buck’s
the religious, racial, and economic tensions that stemmed from it. Temperance Waltz —used to pro-
Rebellious Spirits includes over a dozen works drawn from NOMA’s mote abstinence from alcohol con-
permanent collection further contextualized with historical ephemera, sumption—and a stereograph
documents, advertisements, and glassware on loan from local institu- viewer showing an image used to
tions. While the Prohibition era represents only 1920–33, the objects promote low-ABV “near beer.”
on view in Rebellious Spirits tell a story of drinking culture in the Visit noma.org/exhibitions/
American South starting in the first half of the 18th century. rebellious-spirits/ to learn more.

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