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This local barber just retired to open a different kind of head shop

The Cornerstone Barbershop on Exchange Street in Bangor is an old-school barbershop. A classic red, white, and blue barber’s pole turns out front while electric trimmers buzz inside. The waiting area is filled with men whose hair is imperceptibly–but evidently–too long. It’s a place that, as life zooms by on the street, time stands still, […]

Paul Bunyan talks Babe, Bangor, and Zac Brown

Possibly the most famous lumberjack of all time and definitely the tallest, Paul Bunyan stands proudly on Bangor’s Main Street. Recently, the city denied funding for a model of Babe the Blue Ox designed as a small example of a larger proposed statue. A Bangor Daily News editorial asked if a lumberjack was even still […]