In Wilder the Connecticut River goes wide and slow behind the dam, and the yards along it stay flat and green well into October. A-C Lawn Mowing keeps them that way with weekly cutting, trimming and cleanups at either end of the season, then turns around in December to plow the same driveways it spent the summer edging. Knowing a property in both halves of the year is an advantage — you know where the culvert sits, where the lawn stops and the gravel starts, which corner holds water after a rain. A straight cut and a clean-plowed drive come from the same instinct, six months apart. It is a good way to come to know a town.