Artist, storyteller, and harmonica player Will Ghormley will tell stories, play the harmonica, and show his hand-made leather Western gear and carvings at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, October 6, at the Carnegie Library Museum, 1123 Willis Avenue, Perry. The event is free and open to the public. Ghormley began making leather products in the early 1970’s as a teen-ager interested in black powder firearms and mountain man rendezvous. In the 1980’s he worked on several ranches in southwest Colorado, made his own cowboy equipment and learned to make saddles by repairing the tack on the ranch. In 1994 Ghormley began making reproduction 1800’s cowboy leather goods full-time, providing authentic leather goods for Cowboy Action Shooters and Old West re-enactors. His authentic 1830’s Texas saddles were used in Disney’s 2003 film The Alamo. Ghormley was voted Best Period Saddle Maker, 2004, by True West Magazine and his saddles will be prominently featured in the coming PBS Texas Ranch House reality series. He made the holsters for Russell Crowe and Ben Foster in the current movie 3:10 to Yuma and for Brad Pitt in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Ghormley also uses his unique skills and artistic craft to carve fine art paintings out of leather.  He is arguably the finest leather artist in the country today.  He has done considerable commission work for The Roy Rogers - Dale Evans Museum and the Happy Trails Children’s Foundation, including making a replica Roy Rogers silver mounted saddle for a foundation raffle in 2001-2002.  Ghormley’s carved leather paintings hang in the collections of notables such as President George W. Bush, radio commentator Paul Harvey, and actor Charlton Heston. He lives with his family in Des Moines. More information about this cowboy can be found at Will Ghormley’s website.