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 nation, fences expressthe values of communities. They reflecthow we feel about our next-door neighborsas well as our national neighbors.Fences help define who and what we are.Mexican-American boundary monument maintenance, about 1893;National Archives and Records AdministrationTHINK 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 consider what the impact of those assumptionsmay be on Americans, Canadians, and Mexicans.Chicken & Egg Public Projects, Inc.
Photographs from Farm and Fence <strong>Handbook</strong> by Henry Giese,about 1938; Republic Steel Corporation, AgriculturalExtension BureauLET’S TALK• On the image of the Sonora/Nogales border,we saw a quote by Martin Heidegger: “Aboundary is not that at which something stops,but . . . that at which something begins”(from “Building Dwelling Thinking,” 1954).What do you think that means?• How do you build your fences? What kindsof fences do you build? Property markers?Farm enclosures? Security? Privacy? Social?Personal? Emotional? Why do you build them?• What do your fences say about you?
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