As for place, even in the book I tended to give a once-over-lightly to family, home, rootedness, and heritage - just when these institutions and the past were finding renewed favor with the American public - just when, in other words, 34;Fence me in34; was elbowing out the earlier (and my preferred) slogan, 34;Don39;t fence me in.34; I praised 34;place,34; but my contribution to the understanding of place was not so much in the rhetoric of rootedness, already beginning to flood both academic and popular literature, as in expanding its meaning.I expanded place39;s meaning in two ways. One was to argue that place, defined broadly as a center of meaning (care and nurture), includes far more entities than towns and cities, or even neighborhoods, homes, and houses. Wwhy not also fireplace, a favorite armchai...