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chained_bear commented on the word barber shop lore
"Not only are all the eyewitnesses gone, but so, for the most part, are the children who heard their stories of the great pacer.... One Oxfordite I interviewed apologized for only having 'barber shop lore,' as if that was not something precious."
—Charles Leerhsen, Crazy Good: The True Story of Dan Patch (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008), 335
October 28, 2008