A renowned epidemiologist who became a textile artist and has written three books on the art will visit Haines Sunday, part of a trip that will return 11 spruce-root baskets to the Chilkat Valley.
David Fraser is famous for determining the cause of Legionnaire’s Disease, a type of pneumonia that killed 29 people at an American Legion convention in Philadelphia in 1976. His second career has been in art, creating woven pieces in abstract shapes.