Just What The Doc Ordered

Gene Layman stops for a portrait at Harrisonburg Pharmacy on Reservoir Street on Friday. Layman’s store opened in 1987 as part of Brown’s Pharmacies. It became Harrisonburg Pharmacy in 1998. Layman is now shutting the doors of the store that he opened 25 years ago and turning his pharmacy business over to Medicap Pharmacy. (Photos by Holly Marcus / Special to the DN-R)

Layman (right) stands behind the counter at his Harrisonburg store. After over 40 years as a pharmacist he is set to retire, though he plans to continue to work as a pharmacist for Medicap a couple of days a week.