Notes and Queries, a Baltimore Maryland company and one of the first visionary companies in the greeting card and wrapping paper industry, is celebrating its 40 year anniversary. Alan Harnik started Notes & Queries 40 years ago with one goal in mind: to bring the absolute best in European design to the United States market. The company was first conceived in Madagascar and then nurtured from a small pushcart in Faneuil Hall Marketplace in Boston in the 1970s. At that time, Alan was selling handmade cards and crafts from Madagascar and American handmade greeting cards. Over the years, Harnik built the company from a modest pushcart in a local mall to a major warehouse and distribution center in Baltimore, Maryland.