It was hot enough to fry an egg on almost anything on Friday, but Albert Gomez of Makers Station in West Creek cranked up the glass furnace to 2,200 degrees in spite of it and held his first-ever glass blowing open house. It was early evening, and a goodly crowd stopped by to watch artists Gomez and Jeff Ruemeli turn globs of molten glass into shimmering pumpkins, vases and bowls.
The process was mesmerizing. Both artists started by thrusting a glass blowing pipe into the “glory hole” of the furnace to gather an orange hot, glowing blob of glass from…
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