Author Archives: Kara Uhl

A Conversation with Elan Robinson and Monroe Robinson

The illustration we used for the diestamp for “The Handcrafted Life of Dick Proenneke” is fitting in myriad ways, the most important being it was created by Elan Robinson. In 2000, Elan, who was 11 years old at the time, traveled with Monroe to Dick’s cabin. “I knew I was traveling with a young and…

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The Secret

— the instinct to create, to make things with our own hands, is part of every man’s natural inheritance I like to think that somewhere in the work we do lies the secret of existence. Something our work demands of us, differing perhaps with each individual and yet, rightly understood, demanding our best; something it…

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