Talk about packing a punch...

On our visit to the Oglebay Glass museum there was one piece that couldn't help but stand out and that was the Famous Sweeny Punch Bowl.   Punch Bowl?  What is so special about a punch bowl?

Sweeney Punch Bowl at the Oglebay Museum in Wheeling, WV

No, this woman is not really short and I am not talented enough to Photoshop this picture.  That is the actual size of the piece.  The Sweeney punchbowl, is five-foot-tall (4 ft 10in) bowl weighing 225 pounds and is  believed to be the largest piece of cut glass tableware ever produced.  There is an interesting story behind this piece. 

Use information found in the links below to write a 3.8 paragraph on the History of the Sweeney Punch bowl.

Sweeney Tomb

BOWLED OVER

Article from the News and Courier, page 9 July 3, 1964