Around Town: We never know what you’ll find

By Insider Staff - Nov 29, 2016 | 0 comments

A few weeks back, we were at McGowan Fine Art chatting it up with Julie Hamel, who handles the gallery’s communications duties, as well as the vice president of fun and obscure facts, and she told us about this beetle, Bert Bartholomew Barrington, she had met on Storrs Street earlier in the day. As it turns out, Barrington is a Concord native and had been helping people parallel park all week until his chimney sweeping business starts up again, which Hamel so quickly pointed out “it is honestly amazing how he stays so clear with such a dirty job, although not as dirty as his cousin’s however, the dung beetle.” Good one, Julie! And while he posed for this photo, Barrington would not reveal his age, only that he was “old enough to run a successful business with a wife and hundreds of thousands of offspring.”

A few weeks back, we were at McGowan Fine Art chatting it up with Julie Hamel, who handles the gallery’s communications duties, as well as the vice president of fun and obscure facts, and she told us about this beetle, Bert Bartholomew Barrington, she had met on Storrs Street earlier in the day. As it turns out, Barrington is a Concord native and had been helping people parallel park all week until his chimney sweeping business starts up again, which Hamel so quickly pointed out “it is honestly amazing how he stays so clear with such a dirty job,  although not as dirty as his cousin’s however, the dung beetle.” Good one, Julie! And while he posed for this photo, Barrington would not reveal his age, only that he was “old enough to run a successful business with a wife and hundreds of thousands of offspring.”