Exhibition Docent Handbook - Museum on Main Street
Exhibition Docent Handbook - Museum on Main Street
Exhibition Docent Handbook - Museum on Main Street
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OBELISK:HOW DO YOU BUILDYOUR FENCES?From picket fences surrounding a yardand gates enclosing a neighborhood, towalls bounding a nati<strong>on</strong>, fences expressthe values of communities. They reflecthow we feel about our next-door neighborsas well as our nati<strong>on</strong>al neighbors.Fences help define who and what we are.Mexican-American boundary m<strong>on</strong>ument maintenance, about 1893;Nati<strong>on</strong>al Archives and Records Administrati<strong>on</strong>THINK ABOUT ITAsk your visitors to think about what European, Asian,or African guests to America might assume if theycompared the country’s northern and southern borders.Have them c<strong>on</strong>sider what the impact of those assumpti<strong>on</strong>smay be <strong>on</strong> Americans, Canadians, and Mexicans.Chicken & Egg Public Projects, Inc.