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On the set of "The Unborn", a new thriller by David Goyer

Associated Crafts was hired by TH Stemper Co to serve as stained glass consultants on a filming location for The Unborn in Lake Forest, IL at the old Barat Chapel. The Unborn was written and directed by David Goyer (Blade: Trinity, The Invisible, Batman Begins) and featured Gary Oldman (Harry Potter, Batman Begins, Bram Stoker's Dracula). Associated Crafts personel spent 11 days on the set providing care and protection advice for the valuable Munich windows of that location.

Works of art. Stained-glass windows restored at church...

Gregory Bayless preserves masterpieces made by mostly anonymous artists. He doesn't mind that his own work goes unsigned but regrets not knowing who created the often stunningly beautiful works that he protects. The Arizona-based craftsman repairs and seals stained glass windows. He was in Cambridge Springs last week to address and prevent further weather damage at the Presbyterian church on South Main Street.

Crew Returns Heritage to Local Congregation

A glance "heavenward" so to speak, led to a discovery by Ron Aschermann, a member of the CommUnity Presbyterian Church in Rocky Ford.
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Stained-glass trio: Catholic middle school donates window to high school

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Robert Bohannon is not an acrobat, but yesterday at Central Catholic High School he sure acted like one as he climbed a 24-foot ladder while holding a 70-pound window.

Bohannon was installing a stained-glass window depicting the annunciation of Jesus. Bellesini Academy, an all-boys middle school housed at the former St. Francis of Assisi Lithuanian Church at 94 Bradford St., gave Central Catholic the window and two others of Jesus' birth and Mary's Assumption into heaven.

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