And I thought 1500 words was a lot to write about an observation assignment. That should be more than enough to describe and discuss a tiny cultural institution in Ohio. Heck, the people that ran it didn’t even realize they were a cultural institution! But having written it last weekend, I’ve tried throughout the past week to reduce the text by 250 words. I’m still over 150 or so, and feel like a parent. I don’t want to take out anything else, but I know I have forgotten my audience. The paper isn’t accademic enough, it reads too much like a feel good Readers Digest article. Yet I hate to change anything more. So, I will attempt to attach it to this blog entry so that it exists somewhere as it is before I go back and slash without mercy.