WASILLA, Alaska (AP) -- Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has erected a 14-foot-high fence at her Wasilla home, making good on a promise to prevent her new neighbor - a writer working on a book about her - from peering in. The brown-plank wall has caused a sensation on conservative airwaves and attention online. In live-and-let-live Wasilla?: No real...
WASILLA, Alaska (AP) -- Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has erected a 14-foot-high fence at her Wasilla home, making good on a promise to prevent her new neighbor - a writer working on a book about her - from peering in.
The brown-plank wall has caused a sensation on conservative airwaves and attention online. In live-and-let-live Wasilla?: No real ruckus, according to Mayor Verne Rupright.
"No crime has been reported," he said Thursday. If Palin wants to build a fence on her property, he said, that's her right.
On Monday Palin took to Facebook to "welcome" author Joe McGinniss, who'd previously written a critical magazine story on the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee. Palin said he was renting a house next door "for the next five months or so" and wondered what he'd gather "while overlooking Piper's bedroom, my little garden, and the family's swimming hole?"
She said work would begin on a "tall fence tomorrow." Which it apparently did: the wooden barrier can be seen between Palin's home and the smaller one McGinniss is renting on Lake Lucille.
Palin didn't have much to say about it Thursday, aside from joking with a reporter outside the gate of her home about having to build one in the first place. She said she was busy babysitting her nephews and didn't have time to say more.
McGinniss, author of such best-selling books as "The Selling of the President," "Blind Faith" and "Fatal Vision," is planning a book, tentatively titled, "Sarah Palin's Year of Living Dangerously." It could be on book shelves next year.
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