I WAS AT THE top of the New England Ski Museum’s Hannes Schneider Meister Cup race course at Cranmore last Saturday morning, running late (as usual) as I stepped up to take my run, when course worker and old friend Bobby Haynes related some sad news.
“I hear that John McDonald passed away yesterday at the Merriman House,” said Bobby.
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