Washington Park keeps its shade trees and the memory of an October afternoon in 1858, when two men argued on that square in front of the entire town. A few blocks out in any direction, Appel lawn care keeps grass cut and edges honest through the humid stretch of a Quincy summer, then hangs a plow once the ground goes hard. Snow crosses the prairie fast here and packs down on a driveway overnight, so the work starts early and finishes before the first alarm clock. By May the reward is simpler: cut grass drifting down a Quincy block at suppertime, and mowing lines that run true. Home is this town, with the nearby villages close behind.