Corning, New York

This town is best known as the headquarters of the Fortune 500 giant Corning Inc., a manufacturer of glass and ceramic products for industrial, scientific and technical uses.  The town is named for Erastus Corning, an Albany financier and railroad executive who was an investor in the company that developed the community. The Corning downtown historic shopping district is easy enough for a blind man to navigate– just one loooooong street.  Plenty of good shopping, restaurants and entertainment can be found in this district.  Corning is also home to the Corning Museum of Glass, which houses one of the world's most comprehensive collections of glass objects from antiquity to the present.  The city's other major cultural attraction is the Rockwell Museum of Western Art.  The city has been cited several times by American Style magazine as one of the top twenty-five small city arts destinations in the U.S. -- most recently in June 2007.  Corning Country Club annually hosted the Corning Classic, a stop on the Ladies Professional Golf Association tour, from 1979 to 2009. EARNS OUR HIGHEST RECOMMENDATION.