A bit of Indiana County history will be on display at John J. and Char Kopchick Hall on the IUP campus.
Kopchick Hall is featuring “Science on Display” for the semester, and among skeletons of prehistoric animals, a flight suit of the late IUP alumna and astronaut Dr. Patricia Hilliard Robertson and other items will be a collection of 100 pieces of decorative and Carnival glassware produced by the Indiana Glass Company, which was in operation between 1892 and 1931. The company produced glassware at a plant where Miller Stadium currently stands until a fire destroyed the building in 1931.
IUP Chemistry professor and the director of the Science on Display project Dr. Nate McElroy said the display is a reflection on the science of glassmaking and tells the story of a great local company that had a major impact on lives in the community. The collection is on loan to the University from local collector Arnold Wolfe.
The community is welcome to take a look at the whole collection when the building is open Monday through Friday from 8 AM to 8 PM. The Indiana Glass display is on the second floor of Kopchick Hall near the Oak Grove entrance.
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