by Amelia Harnas | Mar 5, 2019 | Area Fun!, Best of Corning, Food & Drink
Whether you?ve lived here all your life or you moved here just yesterday, the Gaffer District is encouraging all of us to #ExploreCorning this week. Even the seasoned townies among us haven?t done or seen everything that Corning has to offer. So, we simply had to join...
by Amelia Harnas | Feb 1, 2019 | People of Corning
A year ago, while I was apartment sitting in Brooklyn, pretending to be a city person, I was supposed to write a simple blog post about the Bare Bones Caf? and instead ended up drafting a personal manifesto declaring my love and loyalty for my hometown. It was...
by Amelia Harnas | Jan 23, 2019 | Area Fun!, Local Arts
I?m sure you?ve all come across those personality quizzes or Facebook memes about whether you?re an introvert or extrovert. In spite of all the fancy neuroscience and Myers-Briggs alphabet soup, perhaps all you need is a major winter storm. Let?s be honest:...
by Amelia Harnas | Aug 27, 2014 | Best of Corning, Community Voices
I was raised on West Second Street on Corning’s Southside near CFA, and my father was born and raised in Corning, too. This makes me an undeniably honest-to-god Corningite, and no matter how much traveling and moving around I’ve done in the past 10 years or have yet...
by Amelia Harnas | Jul 10, 2014 | Community Voices, Corning Museum of Glass, Interviews
“I’ll give you an example of pure luck: the way I got this job here, when I came up to Corning….” About 5 years ago, I persuaded Thomas S. Buechner to let me interview him to record his stories. He agreed, and we sat in his study from 2pm – 4pm in the afternoon...
