South of Tullytown the ground still remembers the sand and gravel pits — long flat acres, big open sky, the kind of place where a lawn is measured in passes rather than minutes. J.R. Woolston Excavating Company mows and maintains that scale of ground, along with the tighter borough yards up on the older streets: cutting, trimming, edging, hauling the season's debris off the property. Wide-open turf is honest work, because you can see every line you made from the far side of the fence. On a clear afternoon with the mower running and the river a mile east, that is a good place to spend a day.