There are people in life who you see regularly and never know much about - the mail carrier, the bus driver, the security guard you nod to every morning, the guy who gives you a haircut. You know ...

Joe Monahan has been cutting people’s hair in Jamaica Plain since 1959. But he will hang up his clippers for good when he retires next week. Monahan, 86, has made his barbershop at 262 Hyde Park ...