As reported in a Gazette following the Symposium in September, those in attendance took a Tom Dimitroff led tour of the American Flint Glass monument at a local Corning cemetery. This monument commemorates the deaths of about 20 young glass workers. A union campaign took place in Corning and failed. The workers went to Ohio to work in a glass factory. For the fourth of July in 1891 they returned home to Corning by train; had an accident and died.
Thanks to Gene Kocis who saw this item and recalled that he had an draft of a newspaper article on the accident. Gene, now of Newbury Park, California, left Corning in 1958. His mother-in-law had the attached article. Quality isn’t very good because it looks like “the 3rd carbon done on onion skin paper”, as described by Gene.
What’s important about all of this is that there is a lot of ephemera, experiences and the such which should be saved. Anytime you see something that triggers such a recollection, please pass on and share. Otherwise such memories and history may be lost forever