Chronicles of a Barbershop

For forty-one years, Irv has opened Chair & Company at seven-fifteen.Not seven. Not seven-thirty. Seven-fifteen. And in three weeks, he'll turn the sign for the last time. Chronicles of a Barbershop is a quiet, intimate portrait of a man, a place, and the strangers who walk through the door in the final weeks before it closes. A father and his reluctant son. A widow who keeps coming back on Wednesdays. A veteran who never gave his name. A young developer who means well and doesn't quite understand what he's replacing. A newly licensed barber asking how to survive the first five years.They come for a haircut. They leave something behind.Set in the town of Stillwater, this is a story about the places that hold us — the ones we don't notice until they're almost gone — and the quiet, unremarkable acts of showing up that turn a business into a landmark and a stranger into a regular.Part of The Chronicles Series.