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Mourning and Monsters, 2

Posted on December 26, 2017 by Bill Herbert

(In which we perhaps learn more about the monsters, and the Makarship, than the mourning…) At the end of the short filmed interview he conducted with me after my gaining the Dundee Makarship in 2013, the late Jim Stewart was … Continue reading →

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