Bridgewater sits where the Oneida County hills start folding toward the Unadilla, dairy country with Route 8 running straight through the middle of it. Wood's Sanitation, Inc keeps the lawns here — weekly mowing on ground that rarely lies flat, trimming along stone lines and posts, edging where the drive meets the grass. Spring cleanup clears what a long upland winter left behind. Fall cleanup takes the leaves down off the slope before the first wet snow pins them there. On a summer evening you can hear a mower two farms over, which is about the size of this town and the sound of it being kept.