Charles Burchfield, Journals, June 10, 1932

There is an excitement in riding on a street-car when you have no objective - At a certain point the canal looked so interesting we got off and made for it, came to some locks - We went along these - a flat-topped scow which reminded me of the tops of red dusty freight cars on a summer's day - and I felt a warm pleasing sensation of having come home to my own for a moment - it seemed all at once like a good life to work in the barren heat of a railroad -

Charles Burchfield, June 10, 1932