Bar-Bel Industries

About Bar-Bel Industries

Winter whitens the Baldface ridges first, then comes down into Chatham along Route 113, the road that runs north toward Evans Notch with the Maine line close at hand. Bar-Bel Industries plows and clears snow in this thinly settled mountain town, where a long country driveway is often the only way out to the plowed road. Picture the blue hour after a night storm: spruce boughs bowed under their load, the woods gone hushed, and a freshly plowed lane cutting a dark stripe from the road to the door. That uncovered stretch of ground is the whole purpose of the work, and in a place this remote it carries real weight. Out where the pavement thins and the forest runs for miles, a plowed-out drive is how the day gets started.