Exhibition Docent Handbook - Museum on Main Street

THINK ABOUT ITHave your visitors enter the exhibition through thepicket fence and encourage them to think aboutwhat a picket fence means to most Americans.LET’S TALK• We see all sorts of fences everywhere, everyday, butdo we ever really stop to think about them and whatthey mean? How many different types of fences haveyou seen in your neighborhood or community?• What images are conjured up when you think offences? What words come to mind when you thinkof fences? What people do you think of?• Did you have a fence around your yard when youwere a child? What kind?• Do you have a fence or fences on your propertynow? Did you build or install them yourself?• Why do you have a fence on your property?Privacy? Security? Decoration? Keeping somethingin or keeping something out?Free Lance Photographers Guild, Inc.