Glassblowers bring their delicate craft to Illinois

Monday, August 12, 2002

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Nick Scarbrough pulls a long pipe out of a furnace roaring away at 2,200 degrees. At the pipe's end sits an orange, glowing lump of molten glass.

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