Big party

I've been following the immense behind-the-scenes efforts to prepare for the Oct. 15 black-tie ball at the Brandywine River Museum to celebrate the museum's 40th anniversary. Some wonderfully creative folks, both employees and volunteers, have been busy for weeks creating oversized art tools -- brushes, paint tubes, colored pencils and the like -- as decorations for the party, in keeping with the theme "It's Gonna Be BIG."
That it is!
According to the museum's website, "We’ll mark the Museum’s huge range of achievements and impressive and growing collections with a monumental party to show members and other friends how enormously appreciative we are for four decades of support.   Held in the Museum’s vast tented courtyard, the ball will feature larger-than-life décor, a wide variety of artistic food and drink, and the big sounds of Ward Marston and his orchestra." 
The museum is 40 years old, imagine that. I remember going there on high school field trips shortly after it opened.