By John Cofield

If Oxford were Mayberry RFD, Park’s Barber Shop would be Floyd’s. The early bird got the sneering rights.

Newspaper-toting coffee clubbers made themselves known; on foot, coming down North Lamar and up South.

John’s crew, back of the drug store, Ed and Howard’s bunch, Louise laughing with her close friends and customers, one in the same…this was Mayberry, this was Oxford.

And down the sidewalk, a block off the Square, at Park’s Barber Shop, there was Norman Rockwell’s Americana on display as Dennis Bullard snapped this shot of his son Jamie’s first haircut.

While Mr. Earnest Oliver works on another customer, Mr. Lois Henderson’s slight smile acknowledges the moment and young Jamie’s expression as an Oxford father and son right of passage.