Festival crowds watch Blenko glassblowers shape molten sand into art in South Charleston
SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS) — On Saturday at the Maple Syrup Festival in South Charleston, Blenko Glass showed people the lost West Virginian art of glass blowing. "At one time, West Virginia was the glass mecca," senior glassblowing apprentice Jim Adkins said. "We had close to 470 glass factories in the state, today we have three. So we're just out here trying to get everybody in touch with their glass roots. I guarantee if you walk through here somebody's mom, dad, uncle, cousins worked glass somewhere before."
