Eastern Regional Show 
        by Jessica Hays 
I went to the insulator show with my teacher, Mr. Brewer. Five other classmates went along for the ride. We left Union City at 5:00 in the morning. We arrived at the museum at around 8:30. We waited in the lobby for the insulator show to begin. When I first got there I could not believe all the different insulators that were there. There were all different kinds of colors and shapes. While I was there I bought a mini-insulator for $5.00 from one of the insulator dealers. It is called a CD 285. The color is a light pink with a titanium coating.

While I was there I met some really nice people. After I walked through the glass museum, I thought that I had lost my ticket to be able to re-enter the show. I found it, but the insulator people like Mr. Lawless were teasing another student and me about our tickets possibly being forged. They said that we were the ones to put the black 'X" on the back of our tickets! Another very nice person that I met was Mrs. McDougald. She had some very nice insulators, and they were pretty reasonable too. We took our picture standing by the table where she was selling her insulators. 

My teacher bought many insulators that I would have liked to have. After looking at all the insulators I would have to say that my favorite type of insulator would have to be the mini-type because I really like the different colors and the variety of shapes. 

While Mr. Brewer was walking around and talking to the different dealers, Mark Douglas and I started to walk around to the different floor levels in the museum. All together there were four levels of all kinds of interesting stuff. We saw a huge stained glass window that had flowers on it. On our journey through the third floor we saw a man. He was posing as Benjamin Franklin. He was playing an old fashioned harmonica; it sounded very pretty. The bowls were all different kinds of colors. He also had some very interesting things to say. He definitely left an impression. He was telling us that if we run up and down the escalator stairs that we might accidentally get our fingers chopped off like some little boy did. He showed us an impression in the cement where the fingers were.

After spending around 5 hours there, we left at around 2:40. I really enjoyed myself, and I would say that it was definitely worth riding all the way up to New York!!!!!

My Day at the Insulator Show
My name is Mark Douglas; I live in Union City, PA in Erie County. I went to an insulator show in Corning, NY with Mr. Lee Brewer and some of my friends. We got there at 8:30 and then walked around for about half an hour and then went onto the showroom floor. We went around the show looking for the best deals. We found many good deals. I also found one thing that surprised me. I found that the people there were very friendly and very easy to deal with. This made it even better and more enjoyable. And I did end up finding some good deals. I bought a Surge, a Mickey Mouse, and a Brookfield CD 126 in a light blue aqua which is my all time favorite piece. We also got to go to the glass museum. We ran into a person acting like Benjamin Franklin. He was talking about his brother's kidney stone, and my friend Marcus Stanbro asked him what a kidney stone was. He said that it was a stone in the kidney. Everybody in the room started laughing. He also told us that a kid was running down the escalator and that two of his fingers got chopped off and went 10 feet and put an indentation in the floor. As you can probably see I had a blast and am looking forward to going to another show.

Corning Glass Insulator Show 
        by Samuel Lee Brewer, NIA # 6697 
The insulator show was in Corning, New York at the Corning Glass Museum. The museum was huge! It had places in it that showed you how they make glass and how they make designs. The insulator room was also very big. It had 17-30 tables and at least 50-150 people were there while we were. I would say that the show was about half the size or more of what the London, Ohio show used to be.

Some of the displays were beautiful! They had all different colors, sizes, and shapes of insulators. Some of the cases the insulators were in were also beautiful. 

Now let's talk about the building the show was held in. It was held at the corning Glass Museum. The museum had a whole bunch of things like car windshields; videos on how they make glass bowls; displays of colorful glass ornaments and weird designs; people to tell you how glass is made and shaped; microscopes and magnifying glasses.

There was a guy dressed up as Benjamin Franklin who showed us some glass inventions he made back in the 1700's. He made one invention that had bowls on a stick that he could use to play music when his fingers were wet. He also had a glass with water in it that all he did was make his finger wet and rub it around the edge of the glass and it made music. He also made his finger wet (again) and rubbed the edge of another huge glass bowl and it made three different notes. The secret was the position his hands were in at the bottom of the bowl. He also showed us glasses made in a better way than the way they used to be made when he was alive (he had invented the better way). 

Now back to the insulator show. There were a lot of friendly people there. The people like Ken Willick and Sam Stull who were there had expensive insulators. 

I don't remember if I got any insulators at the show because I've been to too many insulator shows this summer like the National Insulator show out in Minnesota, our local club show, and the Washington Courthouse Show in Ohio. 

Well that is about all I have to say about the insulator show except to say I had a swell time and I LOVE INSULATORS!

My Day at the Insulator Show 
        by Marcus Stanbro 
On September 16, 2000, my teacher Mr. Lee Brewer took four of us from his class to the Eastern Regional Insulator Show in Corning, New York. At first I was not sure whether I wanted to go or not. I thought that if I went I would be bored and have nothing to do. When I got there, I found out differently. When we arrived in Corning at 8:30 we waited out in the lobby for the insulator show to open up. When it opened I spent two hours going from table to table looking at both expensive and non-expensive pieces. I was quite surprised at how fast the time had passed. 

At around 10:30 I went to the museum with my teacher's son, Seth, and ended up finding an educational act going on upstairs about Benjamin Franklin. This show was not only educational but humorous. In order to make children stop playing on the escalators, he told a story about a child that while playing on the escalator detached two of his fingers. They fell approximately ten feet from the stairs and left an indentation where they fell. This obviously proved humorous for most of us who knew that he was joking. In the exhibit, he then told us how he invented bifocals and proceeded to demonstrate how they were as good as the ones that some people have today. I never thought that I would learn something at the show, but I did! I'll never forget the time I had at the show, and I hope that I have the opportunity in the future to go to another one.

My Day in Corning, New York
        by Kyle Keller 
On Saturday, September 16, 2000, I went to the Corning Glass Museum with my teacher Mr. Lee Brewer and some schoolmates. We came from Union City, PA and went to Corning, New York. The reason for this trip was to go to the Eastern Regional Insulator Show. We arrived at Corning at about 8:30 AM. We spent half the day there. I remember the fun we had looking upstairs and all over. Benjamin Franklin was so funny. He talked about how he had to make a devise for kidney stones. Marcus Stanbro decided to ask him "What is a kidney stone?" He thought a minute then replied, "A stone in the kidney." Everybody started laughing. He also told us that some kid was on the escalator playing around and two of his fingers went 10 feet and put a dent in the floor. I was not really into insulators (or puns) until I came to Mr. Brewer's school. He got me interested in them and was shocked at how many insulators I saw. I started a collection. I even bought one. . . it was a Surge. On the way there almost everybody fell asleep. Mark, Mr. Brewer and I were the only people awake. On the way back only Marcus slept. We were making up puns once we entered PA. It was something to do to pass the time. Mark taught us a new game to play on the road, and we played that on the way home too. We saw a lot of deer on the way up but no turkeys. I am looking forward to going to another show.

(Left to right, front row) Jessica Hays, Seth Brewer, 
"Mrs. McDougald - a nice person with nice insulators and 
pretty reasonable too! ", Samuel Lee Brewer, Mark Douglas, 
Marcos Stanbro and Kyle Keller (back row)