This is only the second half of the kiln casting process and it’s not complete until I polish the glass, but I am loving working with glass! Some of these will be part of larger pieces, and some will just be themselves. Grateful to Sanctuary Glass Studio for everything they’ve done for me and especially Ryan who continues to teach me so much about this process. #kilncastglass #glasssart | Cindy Blair Light Art

While the 1904 World's Fair story is famous, the ice cream cone's origins are more complex. A year before the fair, Italo Marchiony, an Italian immigrant in New York, received a patent for a machine that molded edible ice cream cups. He had been selling ices from a pushcart and needed to stop customers from taking his glass cups. His invention was a small, flat-bottomed, fluted edible cup. Meanwhile, at the St. Louis Fair, multiple vendors, including Syrian immigrant Ernest Hamwi and Abe Doumar