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By GAIL SLUPATCHUK

Published: Mar 15, 2007 12:00 am

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CAPE COD GLASS CLUB WILL HOST PAPERWEIGHT ARTIST ON APRIL 3

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SANDWICH, MASS. â On Tuesday, April 3, paperweight artist Rick Ayotte of Ayotte Glass Studio in Nashua, N.H., will be the guest speaker at the Cape Cod Glass Club. The meeting will take place at the Sandwich Glass Museum in the Hirschmann Theater at 129 Main Street.

Refreshments will be served at 1 pm followed by the clubâs regular meeting at 1:30 and Ayotteâs presentation. This event is open to all who have an interest in antique and contemporary glass â its making, collecting and study.

Ayotte began his career as a scientific glassblower, but he also produced lampwork figurines for gift shops. The White House recognized Ayotteâs work in 1976, when he was commissioned to create life-sized lilacs to hang on the White House Christmas tree.

He created his first paperweight in 1976. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he began to create âa little world in a sea of colorâ in earnest, studying birds and flowers in their natural habitat to interpret in glass.

Today his glass art is renown. It has traveled the world, and resides in public collections of museums such as the Bergstrom-Mahler Museum in Neenah, Wis., and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

Ayotteâs lecture to the glass club coincides with an exhibition of paperweights at the Sandwich Glass Museum presented by the New England Paperweight Collectors Association. The exhibition featuring New England artists is on view through June 10.

The Cape Cod Glass Club, founded in the year 2000, is a voluntary not-for-profit chapter of the National American Glass Club. It is dedicated to the study and appreciation of glass regardless of the type or period, with emphasis on American glass. To that end the parent organization holds an annual seminar and publishes a scholarly journal that is sent to members three times yearly. The Cape Cod chapter meets monthly from October to December and from March to June. Activities include formal lectures, informal study sessions and visits to museums and working glassmakers.

On May 1, the club will meet for lunch at Clancyâs restaurant in Dennisport, Mass. Members and guests will proceed to the nearby studio of Fritz Glass, maker of bright, multi-colored marbles, vases and other objects.

For further information, contact membership chair Dorothy Schatz at 508-428-2141 or program chair Betsy Hewlett at 508-362-6875.

SANDWICH, MASS. â On Tuesday, April 3, Rick Ayotte Glass Club Ayotte Glass Studio in Nashua, N.H will be the guest speaker at the Cape Cod. The meeting will take place in the Hirschmann Theater of the Sandwich Glass Museum at 129 Main Street.

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... he’s “not a politician.” That may sound appealing, but it’s a little disingenuous — Bruce has been trying to become one for the better part of twenty years. He’s run for local office multiple times, often under different party banners. That’s not the résumé of an outsider; that’s the record of someone who has been seeking political office for decades. Newtown voters deserve honesty. You can’t say you’re “not a politician” while campaigning for office year after year. Leadership isn’t about slogans — it’s about results, collaboration, and credibility.

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