<p>It is with great pride that I am able to present to our members and the general public the publication of the Honourable Company of Horners, “The Hartley Horn Drawings.” I can remember part of its beginning at our annual meeting banquet in Deerfield, MA., March 2007, when Frank Willis collected monies to start the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Dixon’s Gunmakers Fair of 2010 is now history and the Honourable Company of Horners was well represented. At the accoutrement judging, a total of twenty Judges Choice ribbons were awarded and Guild members achieved twelve. There were five ribbons awarded in special categories and Guild members received three, Best Historical, Best Folk Art and Madison [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In preparation for Dixon&#8217;s, I was updating the inventory on past issues of The Horn Book and couldn’t help but peruse some of the old issues and realized, once again, that there are a plethora of articles that have some invaluable research.  So I decided to change “The Horn Book Feature Article of the Month” [&hellip;]</p>

<p>July 4th, 1776, Independence Day Independence: “ the state or quality of being independent;  freedom from the influence, control, or determination of another or others.” We owe this to our ancestors that we continue to pass it on to future generations. Dixon’s is rapidly approaching and so is the deadline date of July 13th to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In 2009, Willy Frankfort represented our Guild and took on the task of producing the 1 of 1000 Powder Horn for the NMLRA Endowment Program. I asked Willy to take photos of the horn from start to finish for a “Photo Journal” so all members could see how his work progressed. [for the complete article, [&hellip;]</p>