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Corning — Glass and MoreGlass blowing, airplanes, and cowboys & Indians are three great reasons to visit Corning, a 4-1/2 hour drive (255 miles) from NYC. This small town, just south of the Finger Lakes region, makes for a perfect long weekend for the family. See Where to Stay in Corning. And there are waterfalls nearby!Read more about these topics in our list of Related Reading Glass Blowing
Cowboys & Indians
Related reading: On Cowboys and Indians Airplanes
It's a short trip from Corning to Elmira to see the National Soaring Museum, a museum of motorless flight. There are gliders on display and computerized flight simulators that you can try out. They offer summer aerospace camp programs for boys and girls. You can also take a ride in a sailplane, a bit pricey, but a memorable experience.
Where to stay in CorningMany places will offer you a better deal, but no location is superior to the Radisson Hotel Corning. It is walking distance from both the Corning Museum and the Rockwell Museum of Western Art, on the main downtown street (Market St.) of this adorable historic restored town. The shops are worth browsing, and many (including the Radisson Hotel) have small museum-quality collections of art glass that are worth a peek. A small modern glass blowing studio, Vitrix Hot Glass Studio, is on Market St. You can watch the artists at work and purchase some of their pieces. Waterfalls
Related ReadingEvery road trip is an opportunity to record your own geography, scrapbook your vacation, and diary your thoughts. Save paper souvenirs like admission ticket stubs, museum maps, hotel stationery, cafe menus, road maps, and the like, to illustrate your scrapbook. Include pressed flowers that you pick by the roadside and press flat in a travel guide (or whatever other books you keep in your car). Add drawings and photographs of the people you meet and the places you visit. Write down how you feel about them. Trace your route on a map in brightly colored markers or highlighters. Compute how many miles you have traveled and how long it took. Write a song about where you have been or about where you are going. Travel is a natural course in social studies and geography. In these ways you can add writing, reading, math, art, and music. Discussions of climate, terrain, and geological formations which have changed over time (canyon walls, mountains, bodies of water) add science to the experience. On Glassblowing:
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Corning is the home of the Corning and Steuben Glass Factories. Today it boasts the largest 
Nearby is the National Warplane Museum, 
Just north is 
, by J. L. Branse, early American history of glassblowing, for ages 2-8
, by Dan Dailey & Allison Dailey, published by the Toledo Museum of Art. Drawn and written for children by the daughter of a well-known glass artist, patterned closely on Dan Dailey's life.
, essays by Benjamin W. Cobb and Susan Linn,
Foreword by Dale Chihuly. Photos and original drawings of the best glass art that has sprung from the minds of children at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington. Published in 2009 by 
, by Lee Sullivan Hill, for ages 6-12
, by A. G. Smith, for ages 8 and up.
, by Julie Danneberg, for ages 5-10. A whimsical book with cowboy poetry and a glossary of cowboy words and phrases.
, by Linda Granfield, for ages 9 and up, the history of the cowboy in the Old West told in scrapbook format.
, by Joseph Bruchac, This is a story of Mohawk life, told through the eyes of a boy and his twin sister. For ages 8-12.
, by Lynne Reid Banks, a very popular book (and movie) for ages 9-12. 
, by Louise Erdrich, for ages 9-12. Ojibway life in 1847, seen through the eyes of a seven-year-old girl.
, by Forrest Carter, for age 12 and up.
and 
, by Sherman Alexie, both for teens.
, by Rich and Sue Freeman.
and 
, by Derek Doeffinger.