Even though most of you young’ins live in a paperless world, that shouldn’t stop you from visiting the Degenhart Glass and Paperweight Museum in Columbus, Ohio. The former owner of the Crystal Art Glass Company and proclaimed “First Lady of Glass”, Elizabeth Degenhart, bequeathed over a thousand paperweights, 55 factory molds and a large collection of 19th century glass and cruets to help tell the story of glassware produced in the Ohio and Western Pennsylvania region. Anyone reading that sentence fast…it’s glass lady, not gas lady. Take note, the museum is closed on weekends…don’t want to disappoint any road trip paper and glass fans out there. Well, except this Saturday when the museum celebrates the BIG 3-0! Even though I have been to Ohio several times in my life, I can’t say I have ever stepped into the “city” of Columbus. But I feel like I’ve been there. In college I knew this insecure girl who boasted about the greatness of her hometown whenever she got the chance. Sometimes I think it was because she couldn’t compete with the fact that I came from a real city like Chicago. But with some time I’ve come to realize it wasn’t about me at all, it was because she just liked talking about herself. Surprisingly, she no longer lives in Columbus or even the state of Ohio for that matter. Various people I’ve known through the years told me they were happy to leave the town once they were done with their studies at Ohio State. Anyway, I think this museum (located behind a Starfire Gas Station, which kind of works with the “gas lady” joke) perfectly sums up Columbus and why I never want to go there.
P.S. Our 300th post! That should make me feel extra special inside, but instead I feel dead…like a paperweight.
