Granfalloon

It's been almost exactly one year since I began volunteering in the Art Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia where my as-of-right-now seemingly distant goal is to develop a finding aid for the department's archival collection --  a set of drawers filled with folders containing pamphlets, postcards, maps, books, letters, newspaper clippings, and the occasional thing I can't categorize -- all (if not sometimes vaguely) pertaining to art in Philadelphia. Over the near year I've been keeping a running list of questions and bits of information that I keep telling myself I'll research that night but end up leaving until later and, up until now, later never really arrived. But I'm finally ready to start writing about my experiences and lucky for myself and everyone else out there, I was very loyal to my collection in that I really did record random thoughts about my findings every single day with the exception of maybe one day (and I'll let you know whe