EAPGS

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A Celebration of EAPG Made in Indiana

Greentown Glass Museum

The 2026 Annual Meeting will be in Kokomo/Greentown, Indiana, August 3-5, 2026.

The two towns are ten miles apart and we will be having meetings in both places. There will be some interesting presentations on two Indiana Glass manufacturers (the Model Flint Glass Company and the Indiana Tumbler and Goblet Company) and travel to several glass museums. We will have a display one evening on Indiana glass companies and their wares and a member sale of EAPG one evening. 

 

Here is an overview of the plans for the EAPGS Annual Meeting in Kokomo/Greentown, Indiana, August 3-5, 2026.

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(Monday, August 3) we will be starting the first day off with a morning presentation at the Greentown fairgrounds by Ryan Gill on the Model Flint Glass Company of Albany, IN. After the presentation, we will drive separately to the Glass Museum in Albany to see their amazing collection. This is a little over an hour's drive from Greentown. Ryan has hinted that there may also be some glass for sale at the museum.

Right now it looks like the Glass Museum in Dunkirk (less than 10 minutes from Albany) will also be open that day. While there is not a scheduled stop there, it would be an excellent add-on activity for Monday. Whether you choose to visit Dunkirk or not, you'll have the rest of the afternoon to "antique" across eastern and central Indiana. Just be back in time for dinner.

On the first evening of the meeting, we will be having dinner at the Food Building at the county fairgrounds in Greentown.  After dinner, Jason Kendall has graciously agreed to talk on the Indiana Tumbler and Goblet Company and the IT&G Works of the National Glass Company.

That evening, we will have display tables set up in the meeting area for each of the Indiana glass companies that made EAPG era pattern glass. Members are invited to bring one example from each of the companies that you may have in your collection for display on the table for that company. I did a quick check and I have examples from six of these companies so I would be bringing six items for display. The purpose of this activity is so that members might get an experience of the amount and variety of the EAPG made in Indiana from the 1890s through 1915.

The list below contains all (maybe) of the glass companies involved during this time. All but two of these (Chicago Flint and Lime Glass and the Evansville Glass Company) were located in the "gas belt" across east central Indiana.

INDIANA GLASS COMPANIES FROM THE EAPG ERA

  • American Glass Company, Anderson, IN
  • Beatty-Brady Glass Company, Dunkirk, IN + NGC
  • Bonita Glass Company, Cicero, IN
  • Bournique Glass Company, Cicero, IN
  • Canton Glass Company 1, Marion, IN + NGC
  • Canton Glass Company 2, Marion, IN
  • Central Glass Company, Summitville, IN
  • Chicago Flint & Lime Glass Company, Chesterton, IN
  • Dithridge Bros., Marion, IN
  • Evansville Glass Company, Evansville, IN
  • Indiana Glass Company, Dunkirk, IN
  • Indiana Tumbler & Goblet Company, Greentown, IN + NGC
  • DC Jenkins Glass Company, Kokomo/Arcadia, IN
  • Kokomo Glass Manufacturing Company, Kokomo, IN
  • Model Flint Glass Company, Albany, IN + NGC
  • Ohio Flint Glass Company, Dunkirk, IN

     

Tuesday (August 4) at the 2026 EAPGS Annual Meeting will start out with a visit to the Glass Museum in Greentown. Jason Kendall and others have been working to insure that this stop will be “over the top”.  More information as it becomes available. After Greentown, you are free to explore central Indiana sites, both in and around Greentown/Kokomo but also the surrounding central Indiana area. We are working on a visit period to a well known glassmaker in Elwood on Tuesday afternoon. More info as it becomes available. We will have lists of interesting places to visit, as well as possible “antiquing” venues from Indianapolis to Fort Wayne. As in the last two years, these will be available in your registration packets when you check in on Sunday.

Dinner Tuesday night will be at the historic Train Depot Community Room in Kokomo. This will be our 2026 annual business meeting.  A caution for this dinner…. The Community Room is on the second floor and is not handicapped accessible. There is a wide stairway leading upstairs but no elevator.

Wednesday (August 5) at the 2026 EAPGS Annual Meeting will be mostly a free day. That being said, there is an activity outside of the EAPGS that you might want to attend.

While researching the book on Canton Glass, I spent the better part of a day at the Marion, IN public library. They bent over backwards to assist me and I want to pay them back. There will be a presentation at the library on the first Canton Glass Company around noon on Wednesday covering all the company’s years but focusing on the Marion years (1890-1902). A few of the details for this are still in progress but we will keep you informed.

Wednesday evening, we will meet again for dinner at the Food Building at the fairgrounds in Greentown. Before dinner, we will have member sales tables available for set up and sales after dinner. I’m not certain how many tables we will have but I am guessing ten or twelve at a minimum.