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The Ball Collector, Lobsterman, Spy, and Bucket Boy
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The Ball Collector, Lobsterman, Spy, and Bucket Boy

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Neal Bascomb
Nov 12, 2022
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Down in Charleston helping out with family and thought I’d send along short, punchy profiles of some very interesting jobs and then the origin story of the author who made me love spy stories. I only wonder what the great Anton Chekhov could have done in turning these lives into works of art!

Meet a 1930s Golf Ball Collector. "Like Mad Max on a fuel r…

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