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News Release
Office of News and Information
Johns Hopkins University
3003 N. Charles Street, Suite 100
Baltimore, Maryland 21218-3843
Phone: (410) 516-7160 / Fax (410) 516-5251
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February 24, 2000
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACTS: Judith Proffitt or
Catherine Rogers Arthur
homewood@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu, 410-516-5589
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The History and Mystery of Glass:
A Homewood House Museum Symposium
Homewood House
Museum will
hold a symposium on the history and "mystery" of glass from 9:30
a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on
Friday, March 24, in the Garrett Room of the Eisenhower Library,
adjacent to
Homewood House, on the campus of the Johns Hopkins University,
3400 N. Charles
Street in Baltimore. The symposium is held in conjunction with
its exhibition, Bubble
to Bottle, Pontil to Prism: Early Glass in Maryland, 1785 to
1835.
Lecturers for the day's program are Todd Hufnagel, Hopkins
assistant professor
of materials science; Amanda Lange,
associate curator at
Historic Deerfield in Massachusetts; Mary Cheek Mills, glass
scholar and consultant for
Winterthur Museum in Delaware and Sotheby's American Arts
Program; and Dennis
Zembala, director of the Baltimore Museum of Industry.
Hufnagel will present "So What is Glass, Anyhow? It's Not
Very Clear," a slide
lecture on the physical properties of glass and the differences
between crystal and glass.
Lange will address the economic effects of the Jeffersonian
Embargo and the War of
1812 on domestic glass industries in her talk, "Glass and
Glasshouses in Federal
America." Mills will give a talk called "Old Bremen Success and
the New Progress: John
Frederick Amelung and the New Bremen Glassmanufactory." Finally,
Zembala will look
at the impact of mold forming on mass production in Baltimore's
glass production in his
talk, "The Transformation of Glassmaking from Craft to
Industry."
A lunch break from noon to 1:30 p.m. will allow for tours of
Homewood House
and the glass exhibition. The cost of the symposium is $40 for
members and $50 for non-
members. Box lunches are available for $8.50 by calling in
advance. For reservations or
information, call 410-516-5589.
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