Vandermeer Stone and Excavation

About Vandermeer Stone and Excavation

Along the Upper Delaware the river never quite freezes, and on a January morning it steams while the fields above Damascus lie under a foot of new snow. Vandermeer Stone and Excavation opens the way back out — plowing farm lanes and driveways, clearing lots and turnarounds, salting the steep pitches that drop toward the river road. Wayne County wind keeps moving snow long after the storm has quit, filling a cut lane by afternoon, which is why the second pass counts as much as the first. From the high ground you can look across toward Cochecton and see the whole valley white, with eagles working the open water below. Getting a farm lane clear before the milk truck turns in is the measure of a morning here.