Puzzle

Bend light through hand-blown glass to fire a glassmaker's old kiln

Tune an old radio and deduce who is broadcasting from where

Open a dead inventor's writing desk, one locked drawer after another

Learn a language of birdsong by listening, guessing and being wrong

Tie, untie and untangle rope on your phone, one knot at a time

Push books into place before the sinking library tilts again

Sort the mail of a 1950s harbor town, and notice what doesn't add up