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Are You Dreaming Of A White Picket Fence?
 
 
Musings, 9/17/2016, by Patricia Feager
 
While visiting Galveston, TX, I drove through many old neighborhoods that still had the white picket fence. One home with the white picket fence got my attention because there were cats to capture and I just had to take their picture. I watched as the white cat strolled over, walking down the sidewalk, never taking his eyes off me with my camera. There it hooked up with the black and white cat and the two remained, sitting in front of the gate.  
 
 
  
I began to think about the white picket fence, that symbol of home ownership, stuck in the minds of many Americans from even before I was born and how it relates to early colonial, social, economic, and social values of the people who came to America or were born and raised in America. 
 
As a kid growing up Chicago style, I recall playing house with the neighborhood kids and we all said, "When I get married, I want "X" of kids, a house and a white picket fence." But where did we get that idea from? I thought about the house I was raised in. Before my grandparents died, it was their house; then my parents. ... more

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