Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

4. a song that has a sentimental value for me. I have a recollection of coming home from the front part of Pinehollow near Salem, on a spring evening, when the sun’s rays were level, and whistling “Under the Bamboo Tree” – It belongs in my mind to the same time of “In the good old Summer Time” “In the shade of the old apple tree”-“Just because she made those goo-goo eyes” “Coon coon coon”-“I’d leave my happy home for you”-

              Jan. 7, 1934 –

A dream last night – I was a half-grown boy going to school, a school that was a strange mixture of the gardenville school and the Fourth St. School at Salem, Ohio. My children were there too, and altho I was only a boy, I was conscious that I was their Father. I had difficulty finding my class, first going into the 7^th grade, where all the pupils were unfamiliar to me but one, Arthur Brian, who looked as he did when I went to the grades with him long ago – I now told the teacher I did not belong here and she said “Well, you’re big enough” – then she said “I suppose the 6^th grade is good enough for this country bumpkin” This hurt my pride, and I said haughtily “ Do you realize that I have pictures in museums all over the country” – but she was unimpressed and led me to the 6^th grade where that wonderful part of the dream took place. It seemed as if the school was located on the