Mathews Excavating

About Mathews Excavating

A well-kept property pays its people back in small mercies — a driveway you can leave by without thinking, a dooryard that doesn't argue with you at six in the morning. That is the work Mathews Excavating does in Waterford, Vermont, up where the hills lean down toward the Connecticut River and winter comes early and settles in to stay. Plowing here is a night trade: headlights swinging across a white field, the blade laying one clean edge along the gravel, banks pushed back so the next storm has somewhere to go. Come morning the drive is dark pavement between two straight walls of snow, the mailbox is reachable, the woodpile is reachable, and the day can simply begin.