Yes I volunteered many times. My first volunteer job was in Pennypack in the mid 50's. They had a clinic there that was open on Wednesdays. I was the receptionist. Parents could bring their children in and get vaccinations and regular check ups. I was a teenager and I worked there one day a week. I worked as S.S. Kresge's on weekends. I enjoyed both. The next volunteer job was in Hanover Park in a similar position. Cook County called it a well baby clinic. My kids were all in school. I did that for about a year. Then they discontinued the clinic. The next voluteer job was at the Hanover Park library. It was an all volunteer staff. My friend Audrey got me into that. One day a week I was a regular librarian (like Marion Peru in the Music Man) I really enjoyed it. They ran a referendum to open a real library and it passed. That was the end of that. The next volunteer stint was with the Boy Scouts of Ameri...
Many years ago I dreamt of having a house with it's own library. I even designed one. Three stories, the library took up the whole second floor. I think I was twelve. I had my first library card when I was about nine or ten. My sister and I used to take the street car to the Holmesburg library. Yes in the late 1940-'s, two little girls could ride the trolley safely by themselves. The first books I remember checking out were about race horses: Man Of War and Citation. Hers were about dogs by Albert Payson Terhune. We went to public school for the first few years. I started Catholic school in the fifth grade, my sister was in 4th grade. The nuns always gave us a list of "preferred" reading over the summer. Then we would need to do a report of some sort on what we had read. One summer I was into historical novels. One of the book's I read was Scaramouche. The nun gave me a hard time about that one. Didn't...