Welcome To The Wild Willy Frankfort Website

Welcome To My Homepage Photos Photo

Who is Wild Willy and why does he need a Website?

This is the Wild Willy homepage.  This is the place you can come to and learn more about what I do and how you can contact me.  I wear a lot of different hats and many folk get confused as to which organizations I belong to, support, or work for.

To the right you can see the photo that is published in the Union Finley Messenger, the newspaper I write for.  This photo was taken some time ago and has served me well when creating my bio.  That is to say I look like this photo and you can easily identify me.

As I mentioned in the first paragraph, I do many different things, I am a professional Artist, Horner, Writer, Historian, Teacher, and Museum Curator.  I teach classes, create art, write books and newspaper articles.  If you were to search the web for Wild Willy you would eventually find me but you would find a lot of other things.  This website is to help those looking for me for some historical function, employment, or just to get some direction as to what I'm all about.

Available Classes/Coarses

  1. Cartooning/Illustration Layout and Design
  2. Sign Carving and Construction
  3. Folk Art (For Artists and Non-Artists)
  4. The Art of Aging (Making things look old)
  5. Cartography (Map Making)
  6. Working with cow horn, bone, and antler
  7. Scrimshaw (Engraving horn, bone, antler, and ivory.
  8. Fraktur (The art of the Pennsylvania Germans)
  9. Lettering/Calligraphy (Working with quill and parchment)
  10. Backcountry/Frontier Survival Skills (Colonial Era)
  11. Bare BonesTrekking (Econonmy Hiking)
  12. Canoe Trekking
  13. Colonial Cooking Basics

These are classes I have taught and one awards for.  Most are to be taught as "Hands On" but can be modified.

To purchase a copy of my book, "The Artificer" good luck! It can only be purchased on the aftermarket and usually goes for two the three times what I charged when it was published.

Profession - Artist/Horner/Writer/Historian/Teacher

Artist - Trained artist with a Masters Degree in Engineering and Application and Manipulation of Cow Horn - Associates Degree in Commercial Art, specializing in Layout, Illustration, Cartooning and Marketing.

Horner - Certified Master Horner from the Honourable Company of Horners, (Guild).  2006 Past Master of the Guild.  Working professional Horner since 1991. 

Writer - Author of, "The Artificer" and former contributing editorialist for the Union Finley Messenger (Monthly Newspaper)

Historian - Current Curator for the Museum of Western Expansion and former president of the Peters Creek Historical Society.  Former member and co-founder of the Rangers of the Ohio Company.  Current member of the 1st Virginia Reg./Peters Creek Rangers.

Teacher - Teaching at Pricketts Fort State Park (History through the Arts.) Speaker at School of the Longhunter

Past Seminars at Historicl Sites and other Educational Venues

  • Fort Pitt (Horn Seminar), PA
  • Heinze History Center(Horn Seminar-Colonial Fair), PA
  • Bushy Run Battlefield (Ohio Conference), PA
  • Fort Necessity (Skills Seminer), PA
  • Harpers Ferry (Lewis and Clark - Skills and Equipment),WV
  • Colonial Williamsburg (Horn Seminar),VA
  • Lantermans Mill/Millcreek Parks (Colonial Living Seminar), OH
  • Historic Deerfield (Horn Seminar), MA
  • Old Bedford Village (Historic Art Seminar), PA
  • Dixon's Gun Fair (Horn Demo/Seminars), PA
  • Carnegie Mellon University (Frontier Living Classes), PA
  • Indiana University of Pennsylvania, (Historical Interprator)
  • Soldiers and Sailors (Historical Interprator), PA  

 

 

To sign up for my July 2010 Powder Horn and Scrimshaw class go to www.prickettsfort.org or call 330-363-3030

Sites I have been featured on or support