Len Poulin Inc.

About Len Poulin Inc.

February in Benton starts at four in the morning, at fifteen below, with the truck warming and the whole town still dark. Len Poulin Inc. plows the long rural driveways and dooryards out along the back roads, breaking open the turnarounds and pushing the banks back before they close in. Snow arrives here in the cold dry kind that drifts across open ground and fills a drive twice in a single night. Shoveled walkways, a sanded slope to the door, room enough to swing a truck around — small things that decide how a whole day goes. By sunrise the yards are open and the road is one long lane of blue shadow, and that is the point of it.