A little American Bicentennial Longbow history...Happy July 4th!
Forty-nine years ago, America celebrated its bicentennial birthday of becoming a nation. During the week of July 4th, 1976 there was a little bit of history being made in a little bow shop in Hamilton, Montana. The bow shop was John Schulz's, and he was building longbows for Howard Hill Archery. John was an artist in various mediums. Drawings, poetry, leatherwork, building longbows...he enjoyed the mind of an artist looking at ways to bring beauty to enhance ordinary things. John's artistic drawings were the inspiration for the Howard Hill charging elephant logo, which was also used for the medallion in the Commemorative longbow series commemorating Hill's life. (The Commemorative series was also the brainchild of Schulz, originally poo-pooed by Ted Ekin but later embraced when John showed Ted a finished product). John came up with several special edition longbows during his tenure as a bowyer, and the following story is one...
