Richmond Sand & Gravel

About Richmond Sand & Gravel

Out past Federal Furnace the ground goes flat and sandy, pitch pine and scrub oak running to the edge of Myles Standish State Forest. Snow behaves its own way in that country — dry, restless, filling a driveway twice before the sky even lightens. Richmond Sand & Gravel takes the dark hours of a Plymouth storm: plowing drives and lots, sanding the pitched spots where a tire will otherwise spin, chipping back the ice that sets up wherever meltwater stood. The satisfaction is plain and it does not wear out — a black lane at first light, gritted and open, somebody backing out for work without giving it a thought. Storm after storm, that is the whole job, and Plymouth gets a lot of storms.