The Douglas County courthouse anchors Tuscola the way courthouses do — a square of shade, a few benches, grass that everyone in town walks past. Amity Landscaping Group works the yards around it and out along the residential streets, mowing on a weekly rhythm, trimming close to iron fences and foundations, keeping bed borders sharp against the turf. Downtown lots are compact and squared; a few blocks out they open into deep side yards with room for old shade trees. Both get the same care, just different passes. On a June morning with the mowers running and the square filling with shadow, a kept lawn is simply how this town looks at itself.