Salon Prints

At Sarah Jeanne?s Family Hair Care in Lewiston, the pursuit of beauty takes many wild and wonderful forms, as photographer Melonie Bennett discovered.

IF you want to know what's going on in a Maine town, what people are talking about and what cultural fads have finally reached us here in the hinterlands, the beauty salon or barbershop is always a good place to start. In Lewiston that place is Sarah Jeanne's Family Hair Care, on Sabbattus Street. "I have a lot of aunts and relatives in Buckfield and Turner," says photographer Melonie Bennett. "And when I asked about beauty shops to photograph, they said, 'Sarah Jeanne's. It's where everyone goes.

 




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