BIG GRIP
CHRONICLES
Big Grip Chronicles is a field-based writing series by Shawndel N. Fraser exploring craft, skilled labor, masculine devotion, and the worlds shaped by working hands.
Drawing from environmental psychology, cultural observation, and time spent with tradesmen across the Adirondacks and beyond, these essays examine how labor, place, and lived experience shape character, responsibility, and cultural life.
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Road Trip Pilgrimage to Harpers Ferry, and Exhibition Opening
Hands That Nurture: Perceptions of Masculine Devotion is on view at SUNY Plattsburgh through December 4th. Read about my pilgrimage along John Brown’s path from Harpers Ferry to Charles Town and Kennedy Farm, and about the new audio tour that lets you go deeper from anywhere.
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