Long before cell phones held all of our photos and stored calendars for meetings, there was a primitive, but equally as personal object: the carved powder horn. This weekend, an exhibit opens at the ...
TWO INTRIGUING objects displayed together in a second-floor gallery at the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester may seem out of place, at least at first glance. These objects were made from the horns ...
The most successful collectors aren’t trendy. They seek no approval except their own and keep quiet about what they’re buying to have the field all to themselves. Then, a decade or more later, when ...
This powder horn, which likely dates to sometime between 1757 and 1760, is inscribed with a map of the Hudson and Mohawk river valleys. Details visible on the horn include Lakes Champlain and Ontario, ...
They were convenient and functional, the Colonial grunt’s answer to the European soldier’s manufactured cartridge box. But through years of encampments, marches and battles, some of these hollowed ...
BELCHERTOWN — In the summer of 1971, Michael Corbett, a visitor to the Stone House Museum, arriving with his girlfriend, signed the guestbook and toured the historic building at a time when it still ...
Q: I live in Gainesville, Georgia. I have heard your program on the radio on a few visits with my brother who lives in Gainesville, Florida. He suggested that I send you some photos of a powder horn I ...