WEST FRANKFORT, IL – (Tim Hastings, The West Frankfort Gazette. Please click on the link above for the full story. Here is an excerpt below.)
Tim Philippart, 68, a writer and retired business owner from Holland, Michigan, relived his first haircut Friday at Lon Clutts’ Barber Shop on Main Street in West Frankfort.
“I was working on some stories along the Mississippi River this week and I decided to cut back through West Frankfort,” Philippart. “I saw the barber pole on Main Street and that drew me.”
Philippart said he clearly remembers receiving his first hair cut at about age three in Boatrights’ Barber Shop in West Frankfort. The shop was in or near the building Clutts currently occupies. “I was about three,” Philippart said. “I remember it well because I was in the hands of a strange man and he was armed with a sharp instrument.
Philippart posts his writings at the web site www.imaginiscent.net. In the poem, “Balloon in two movements”, he artfully likens a balloon to a single red lung.
The writer said he could not disclose the nature of his research along the Mississippi. He described his prose as reality-based fiction. “Everything I write about really happened or happened in my head,” he said. “I might end up writing about visiting this barber shop.”
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