DOUGLAS Sinclair’s earliest memory was of the great snow at the beginning of 1947. He, his father Captain Willie Sinclair, his mother Marion, and his sisters trudged from Nice Court, where Douglas was born in March 1943, to the Old Manse, a hundred yards away. The Sinclairs.
GENERAL practitioner, malariologist, ethnologist, kayaker, pirate, musician, artist, writer, craftsman, local historian, house builder, scholar, community activist and storyteller extraordinaire… Mike McDonnell was all these things and more. Polymath is probably the right.