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Published: November 19th 2012
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Saturday, September 22 We had purchased a combination ticket for the Corning Glass Museum that also allowed for entrance to the
Rockwell Museum of Western Art located further into the downtown of Corning. So, we started out the day driving back into the town of Corning and past the glass factory to the Art Museum.
This was one of the best museums I have been in, housed in a 3 story building that used to be the City Hall, built in 1893. It had just the right sized collection to not exhaust you nor overload your senses with "too much.” The paintings/art were displayed on brightly painted walls that was a real pleasant surprise. We saw a horse bronze that was by the same artist as one like it in the museum in Fairbanks, Alaska. There were more Remington pieces of art than Russell's here.
Before we headed on our way, we drove through parts of the old town of Corning, past many well-established churches and down part of the nicely restored main street. Since it was Saturday, many people were walking to a weekly jazz concert in a small downtown park. It was really evident
what a small town with a highly-successful and philanthropic major company can do to keep a town alive and its citizens/employees happier.
When we finished, we turned south out of town on highway 15, which will be at some point the continuation of I-86. Parts of the road was freeway, then 4 lane, then back to 2 lane then back as freeway as we cut through very mountainous, heavily timbered country. This is definitely coal producing country also.
We stopped at the WelcomeCenter on the Hammond Reservoir after crossing into Pennsylvania. There we learned that there was a fair going on in Bloomsburg and that it would last for all of the following week. We got out the map and found the town and plotted a course to it.
We exited onto highway 6 and went through the town of Mansfield where we ate lunch in a brewery/pub that took FOREVER to bring us our food and there were very few people in the place since it was past the usual lunch time. We wondered what Friday night was like.
Anyway, surprise, surprise, as we went out of town, we were
back on the "Army of the Republic Highway" that ends in California near the town of Laws in Inyo County. We had noticed the highway this past summer in Laws, and was surprised at this small road that spanned the nation. In Pennsylvania the route was a long narrow, twisty road even when we got to the town of Towanda and turned south on 220 that was, according to the map legend, supposed to be a bigger/wider road.
At the community of Dushore we turned west on CR 87 along the very pretty Loyalsock Creek to Forksville. There we turned south on CR to World's EndState Park and got a campsite for the night. You could see where the flooding of the previous year had downed trees, especially near the little creek.
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