LONG RIFLE ARTICLE IN ANTIQUES MAGAZINE ~ JULY/AUGUST ISSUE
TRAPPE, MARYLAND, June 14, 2012 , Patrick Hornberger, Publisher of Eastwind Publishing has
written an article in the July/August issue of the Magazine Antiques featuring rifles from the famous Joe
Kindig collection. Kindig was a York, Pennsylvania antiques dealer of Americana from the 1930s until
1971. Although he sold important examples of American furniture and art to major museums such as
the Metropolitan Museum, Winterthur and Colonial Williamsburg, his personal passion was the American
long rifle. He found the earliest rifles to be equal to the best American furniture in carving and
metalwork and in fifty years of collecting amassed an astounding inventory of five hundred rifles, still
considered the largest and most important collection of the American art form.
The article in Antiques - its annual folk art issue - features six of the most outstanding rifles from
Kindig’s collection. Hornberger is a guest curator of the Lancaster Long Rifle Exhibit currently on
view at The Landis Valley Village & Farm Museum in Lancaster, Pennsylvania where sixteen of the
sixty five guns in the exhibit come from the Kindig collection. The Kindig article is the first feature
story on the American long rifle to be published in the prestigious magazine in more than two decades.
Hornberger is also an author of the book, The Lancaster Long Rifle accompanying the Landis
Valley Exhibit. He was the Guest Curator of the Berks County Long Rifle & Gunmakers Exhibit held
by the Berks County Historical Society, Reading, Pennsylvania in 2009. He has written numerous
books and articles on the history of early firearms, antiques and maritime subjects. He was the founder
and editor of Antique Collecting magazine, County Life magazine and is the past Publisher of
Maryland Magazine.
