Thursday, March 28, 2024

Humans of East Lansing

<p>East Lansing resident Grant Foley poses for a picture Feb. 23, 2015, at the Grand River Barber Company. Foley has been working as a barber for six years and loves what he does. Hannah Levy/The State News</p>

East Lansing resident Grant Foley poses for a picture Feb. 23, 2015, at the Grand River Barber Company. Foley has been working as a barber for six years and loves what he does. Hannah Levy/The State News

Photo by Hannah Levy | The State News

Grant Foley, 23 years old, Lansing resident and business owner, Grand River Barber Company

“My biggest struggle was getting out of the area I’m from. I just tend to kind of know everybody down there and get into a lot of trouble down there. That was a struggle at first. ... I originally got out of that area through playing basketball. I went to a community college and played two years of basketball. That really matured me after I got out of where I was from. ... My aunt’s a cosmetologist. I always had my own clippers. I would cut my own hair and my brothers’ hair. When I was playing basketball, I cut most of my teammates hair. After I did two years there I was just kind of trying to figure out what I was going to school for, and that’s when I decided to come up here and go to barber college.”

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