Cutting along the grain

Lifelong barber Glenn Spencer has been cutting hair for over four decades.

“When I die, I want you to do my hair,” was Nicky Moore’s last request to one of Mt. Sterling’s longest serving barbers, Glenn Spencer.

Since eighth grade, Glenn realized his calling was to cut hair, and for 46 years he did just that with his friend and late partner Joe Dicken. Although technically retired, Glenn still barbers by appointment on Thursdays in a garage beside his home. “Hair is like wood,” he says. “It’s got a grain. It grows a certain way and you can’t you can’t go against that.” Many of Glenn’s customers have been getting haircuts from him their entire lives and see each other like family.