Do Good Fences Really Make Good Neighbors?
/ "The Makeover of Progress," a 2019 photograph from SHAN Wallace, shows how a wall meant to divide has actually united a community in Detroit. There’s a line in the poem “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost that often is repeated as explanation for why everyone needs boundaries and a little distance from others in life: “Good fences make good neighbors.” Most people have not read the full poem, though. That’s not exactly what Frost meant. The full prose is printed on the wall at the entrance to the Mint Museum Uptown’s new exhibition, “W|ALLS: Defend, Divide and the Divine,” whic...
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