The Yard Barber

About The Yard Barber

Morristown keeps a second sidewalk up in the air — the Skywalk running above Main Street, where afternoon light comes down in bars across the storefronts. The Yard Barber works the ground floor of that same town, block by block, on the idea that the edge of a lawn along a driveway ought to be as clean as a part combed straight. Mowing, trimming, edging, and a blown-clear finish: the cut is set at the height the fescue wants for the week it is in, and the clippings leave with the crew instead of drifting into the gutter. Then Hamblen County turns, and a February morning arrives glazed white off the ridges, and the same trucks come back with plows and shovels and salt to open a drive before the first alarm goes off. Snow here rarely stays long, but it does not have to — a walk cleared at five is a day that begins on time. Simple to name, satisfying to stand and look at: straight lines, square corners, a clear path to the door.