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Painting the Fence

February 25, 2017October 9, 2017 by Bill Donahue

The joys and agonies of maintaining the picket fence at my family’s ancient home in New Hampshire. 

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Edited by Ian Aldrich. Illustration by Cindy Rizza.

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Posted in Essays, Family, History, New England

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