Did you know that, according to Briggs and Stratton, formal lawns with neatly kept grass started appearing in France in the 1700s? While this vintage lawn mower came much later, it’s still not a model ...

In 1962, when I was a teenager, my father gave our neighbor, Mr. Gruder, $10 for a reel mower of my very own. The ash handle shone with age and use, and it had a canvas grass catcher. Mr. Gruder had ...

What is it about old-man accoutrements that hipsters can’t get enough of? After co-opting just about everything vintage (handlebar moustaches, white undershirts, Polaroid cameras, fanny packs), ...

RICHMOND, Ind. — The roar of power lawn mowers and the smell of freshly cut grass begin each year in the spring and carry through into fall. They're as much a part of summer life as drips from an ice ...

I have a new favorite summer sound. It’s the gentle whir of the blades on my manual lawn mower. It’s a mechanical sound but an oddly soothing one: a shwick shwick shwick of spinning metal, like a ...