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 Our trip to see my nephew's play in Medicine Hat gave me an opportunity to show Rob my old "stomping grounds". The weather was unusually grey, damp and foggy. Medicine Hat is renowned for it's sunshine and blue skies, but we didn't see a speck of it!  As we cruised around the city; showing of my high school, my grandparent's house, my church (that looks like a castle) - we ended up by Medalta Potteries. It's now a museum, and we decided, on the spot, that it was the perfect indoor activity. Medicine Hat's abundance of clay made it an ideal location for pottery and brick factories. Older houses, commercial buildings and churches are all constructed from brick, rather than timber (which is not in abundance).Medalta Potteries has iconic beehive kilns that you can go inside, galleries of pottery and glass (from Altaglass), and an abundance of antique machinery. The layout of the facility is part museum, part historic site, part archeology dig and part wor...

 September 25, 2022 Crockstock You may or may not know that Medicine Hat is famous, not only for natural gas production, but also pottery and glass blowing. Medalta Pottery and Altaglass are highly prized collectible antiques. I got to see glassblowers on school field trips, while Altaglass was still operational (and we toured the kitchen of Burger King, where we were generously given a single onion ring each!?! You can't make this stuff up!) I told you they take coffee seriously Just in case you couldn't see Leif and Saga A number of years ago, Medalta Potteries was restored and turned into a museum. They still had the original molds and are producing pottery for their gift shop. They also showcase local artists. Fun fact we learned today while going through the display of dinnerware. To get certain shades, like a deep, rich orange, the glaze contained uranium and the dinnerware is radioactive. The curator is hoping to get a Geiger counter someday! In ...