Keene and Cheshire County, NH — including Swanzey, Chesterfield, Fitzwilliam, Dublin, Alstead, Ashuelot, Chesham, Charlestown and Drewsville — plus Hillsborough County towns such as Peterborough, Hancock, Antrim, Hillsborough, Greenfield, New Ipswich, Sharon and Temple; the Connecticut Valley from Charlestown north to Lebanon and Hanover; and Windham County, VT: Brattleboro, Bellows Falls, Westminster and Saxtons River.
About McClure's Tree Service
Morning comes late to the Ashuelot valley — the light has to climb the ridges east of Keene before it reaches the yards, and by then McClure's Tree Service is already standing at the base of something tall, reading a maple's crown against a pale sky. They work the vertical part of this landscape: removing trees and replacing them, saving the ones worth saving, rigging down the large difficult ones, pruning apple limbs back to good wood, cabling and bracing, thinning, deadwooding, cavity work, and grinding the stump until the lawn can close over the scar. The route runs out of Keene's brick Main Street through Cheshire County — Swanzey, Chesterfield, Fitzwilliam, Dublin, Alstead — north up the Connecticut Valley toward Charlestown, Lebanon and Hanover, east to Peterborough and Hancock, and across the river into Bellows Falls and Brattleboro. Sometimes the job is clearing for sunlight, or opening a mountain or lake view the canopy had quietly closed off; in winter the work turns to snow removal, in the green months to lawn care. The best part is the after — chips swept, ground level, the sky suddenly wider over a dooryard that had been waiting years for it.