Brown Hat Mowing

About Brown Hat Mowing

A few of Steubenville's side streets are still laid in brick, and on a June morning the dew sits on them like a held breath before the first car goes by. Brown Hat Mowing starts about then, while the shade is still long and the grass cuts clean instead of tearing. Mow, trim, edge, blow off — four plain steps, repeated until a lawn looks like somebody stood back and checked it. Summer in the Ohio Valley pushes grass hard after a storm, so the schedule bends to what the yard actually did that week rather than what the calendar says. By afternoon the heat settles in the bottoms, and behind the truck there's a row of yards holding their stripes.