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19 Jul 2008 08:13 am
Turf Wars And The Anti-Lawnists
By Patrick Appel
Elizabeth Kolbert gives a brief history of the American lawn:
What began as a symbol of privilege and evolved into an expression of shared values has now come to represent expedience. We no longer choose to keep lawns; we just keep on keeping them. In the meantime, the familiar image of Dad cutting the grass and then, beer in hand, sitting back to admire his work, is, in many communities, a fiction: increasingly, lawn care has become another one of those jobs, like cooking dinner or playing with the kids, that’s outsourced to someone else.
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