Newark Advocate history columnist Doug Stout of the Licking County Library tells the story of Licking County's Land of Legend Barbershop Chorus.

THE ELLWOOD CITY AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY learned at its recent meeting that barbershop singing isn’t just four guys wearing ...

Then came the porkpie hats, red vests, maybe a mustache and ... the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, known by the awkward acronym SPEBSQUA ...

Indeed, a quartet from Northwest called Highkey ... The stereotypes of barbershop singing, including straw hats and handlebar moustaches, is something the international society is trying to ...

For the purpose of promoting and protecting barbershop quartet singing in America, the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America was founded in 1938.