Hank Murta Adams discusses the dissolution of the handmade industry in the Ohio Valley. Oral history interview with Hank Murta Adams by Barb Elam, conducted via telephone, June 7, 2019, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 01:36.

Hank Murta Adams: So I went from there, sort of by accident, to grad school, and didn’t do glass in grad school, but when I got out of grad school—and while I was an undergrad—it was really the beginning of the definite dissolution of the handmade glass industry in the Ohio Valley, and there were hundreds of these factories; and most of them had already sort of passed out, but there still were probably, I’m gonna guess—25, 20? But they were being sold off, auctioned off. The molds were being sent to scrap yards, and I’m a young kid and I’m just like, observing this, and I was younger than all those people I told you about—like Howard [Ben Tré], they’re all two to four years or maybe more older than me—but they were all my buddies and my friends and—so I’m of that second generation, but I’m younger. But I’m definitely out of that ilk. And so it was very interesting to sort of see, and as I’ve said in my lectures, my entire adult life has, sort of, seen the disintegration of hand-worked industrial revolution coming to a full closure, and the last gasps of it. And Blenko was very, very special within that.