White picket fences were the American Dream. Now people want higher walls.

SOUTHINGTON, Conn. — Chipped paint and mildew be damned. The first job of the day was still a rare treat. Check out those New England-style post caps, the fence salesman thought, that classic mortise-and-tenon construction. Yes, he’d be thrilled to restore an icon of suburbia: the white picket fence...

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