Ford Avenue still runs past the bones of the old rubber works, and in April the grass along those blocks comes back before anything else does. Lazar Landscaping opens the Milltown season there — the clearing of a winter's worth of debris, then the first mow, then the schedule that carries a lawn through to November. Mowing, string-trimming, edging where turf meets sidewalk and driveway, clippings cleared before the truck moves on. A mill town's lots are tight and square, and a straight edge on a square lot reads from the far end of the street. Small work, done again and again, that keeps a whole block looking tended.