Look at a map of this corner of Lake County and Cuba Township is the shape drawn around a marsh — Cuba Marsh at its heart, cattails gone tan and brittle by December, road after road running quietly out to meet it. Winter changes what those roads ask for. Cuba Township clears snow along them, opening plow lines down to the pavement, pushing the shoulders back wider as the season stacks up, and treating the slick spots where wind crosses open ground and glazes a curve. There is an old satisfaction in that kind of work: a road that looked impassable at dusk, passable by breakfast. Barrington wakes up, and the way through is simply there.