Mike and I visited the Corning Museum of Glass in April 2016. We recently returned to Corning to check out its beautiful downtown.
This is Little Joe Tower. It's 196 feet tall. Corning used to make glass tubing for thermometers in this tower. Hot, molten glass tubes were stretched to the top of the tower using a cable system. When the tubes cooled, they were cut to the desired length for thermometers.
This is Centerway Square in the downtown area known as the Gaffer District.
There are lots of nice shops on Market Street, the main street. I loved the rose sculpture at Connors Mercantile. There were more restaurants representing more different types of cuisine than I could count.
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