Come June, Metropolis fills up around the courthouse square where the Superman statue stands, and the whole town tidies itself for company. Holt Lawn Care & Home Maintenance keeps yards ready for that kind of week and every ordinary one after it: mowing, trimming around beds and fences, edging the walks, carrying the cuttings away. Massac County heat rewards an early start and punishes a late one, so the day begins while the shade is still long. There is something plainly satisfying about a lawn finished before lunch, holding its rows in the flat river light. Then on to the next street.