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<font class="headline"><font class="headline">Glass museum clears up
history mystery</font>
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<font class="subhead">PBS' 'History Detectives' in Corning to film
upcoming show.</font>
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<font class="byline"><font class="byline">By LARRY WILSON<br>
</font><font class="byline">Star-Gazette Corning Bureau<br>
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<font class="date">June 16, 2006</font><br>
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<font class="body"><font class="body">CORNING - A crew from the public
television series,
"History Detectives," kicked off two days of filming Thursday at the
Corning Museum of Glass.</font><br>
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<font class="body">Associate
producer Eric Slade said the 15-minute segment that will result from
the filming will be aired in late August or early September.</font><br>
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<font class="body">"A
woman in Pittsburgh found a glass flask in an old log cabin," Slade
said. "We want to find out if it was connected to the Whiskey Rebellion
in western Pennsylvania in 1794."</font><br>
<br>
<font class="body">Slade said the producers brought the flask to
Corning for identification by local glass experts.</font><br>
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<font class="body">"There is no better place in the world to research
glass," Slade said. "The best minds in the world who know glass are
here."</font><br>
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<font class="body">One
of those minds belongs to Jane Shadel Spillman, curator of American
glass at the museum, who was able to identify the flask from a picture
provided by the show's staff.</font><br>
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<font class="body">"I knew exactly what it was," Spillman said. "It
surprised them."</font><br>
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<font class="body">In order to preserve the suspense of the show,
Spillman isn't saying what she told the television crew about the flask.</font><br>
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<font class="body">Spillman said the exposure on public television will
be good for the museum.</font><br>
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<font class="body">"The kind of people who watch that program are the
kind of people who would be interested in coming to the museum," she
said.</font><br>
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<font class="body">Slade
said each 15-minute "History Detectives" segment takes a question and
uses it to tell an unknown story from U.S. history. It takes a
five-member staff about two weeks to research each segment, a week to
shoot it and two weeks to edit it.</font><br>
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<font class="body">Slade planned to film Gudenrath working with glass
to help explain how the flask was made.</font><br>
<br>
<font class="body">"He will explain it was a mold-blown bottle," Slade
said.</font><br>
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<font class="body">Spillman
will be filmed discussing the history of glassblowing and explaining
what mold-blowing reveals about the flask, he said.</font><br>
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<font class="body">The show, in its fourth season, has about 4 million
viewers each week. The new season premieres on Monday.</font><br>
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<font class="body">The
mystery of the flask was chosen from thousands of submissions "History
Detectives" receives from viewers each year, Slade said. The topic was
particularly interesting to the show's staff because the Whiskey
Rebellion was the first time the American government sent troops
against its own citizens, he said.</font><br>
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<font class="body">"We're
thrilled that they're here," said museum spokeswoman Beth Duane. "We're
thrilled that they want to film in the Rakow Library. The library is
open to the public and we want to engage with the public."</font><br>
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<font class="body">Also
on the "History Detectives" crew is Gwendolyn Wright, the show's
presenter and historian. Wright is a professor of architecture and
history at Columbia University.</font><br>
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<font class="body">Following the shoot in Corning, the film crew is
headed to Pittsburgh to complete the story, Slade said.</font><br>
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