Our area’s natural beauty meets handmade beauty in this exciting new event over Memorial Day Weekend!
The reviews from the first collaboration between Huntington, WV’s newest glassblowing studio and Huntington’s revered Park & Rec department are in: the Golden Egg Hunt drove huge participation and enthusiastic interest. “GHPRD single-handedly turned Huntington upside down.” “It was the most crowded I’ve seen Ritter [Park] in a long time.” “[GHPRD] trick[ed] me into exercising, just one big ploy to touch grass.” Huntingtonians of all ages got out of their homes this spring to hunt the Golden Egg – and in the process, discovered a new pleasure in their local parks and natural spaces.
GHPRD and Marrowbone are teaming up for a new round of outdoor exploration and handmade beauty! Inspired by the Block Island Glass Float Project, Marrowbone Glassworks is bringing a parks-wide search for beautiful, free glass “floats” (hookless ornaments) to Cabell County. Thirty numbered and labeled blue-grey glass spheres will be hidden by parks staff across all of its park locations (but not the cemeteries – be respectful!). Patrons are encouraged to explore each of GHPRD’s parks to find and claim one of these glass floats! Each float comes with a QR code so that patrons can record and show off their find!
Marrowbone Glassworks is Huntington’s own glassblowing studio, located on the west side of town at 1525R Washington Ave. Marrowbone was founded by West Virginians trained on factory glass, and is eager to preserve and advance West Virginia’s long legacy of glass artistry and design innovation. The Glass Float Project is designed to raise awareness of the area’s long history of glassmaking, from Pilgrim to Rainbow, from Viking to Owens-Illinois – and also to get locals out into the fresh air, and to touch grass, and relish the natural and man-made beauty of our region.
